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Tom Wilson

Energy correspondent

Tom Wilson writes about the world's largest energy companies, OPEC and the energy transition. He previously ran the FT's Middle East and Africa news coverage after serving in Kenya as the FT's East Africa correspondent.

Prior to the FT he reported for Bloomberg from the Democratic Republic of Congo, after an earlier career advising companies and governments on political and business issues in Africa.

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  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
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    Despite France's ambitions, development in Europe will almost certainly be accompanied by more ideological battles

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  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    BP PLC
    Looney accused of promoting BP women with whom he had undisclosed relationships

    The relationships allegedly occurred before the former CEO took the helm of the oil giant

    Bernard Looney
  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    Trafigura
    Trafigura trims senior team in biggest reshuffle since 2015

    Restructure comes as trader posts record earnings but is hit by alleged $590mn nickel fraud

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  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    BP PLC
    How Bernard Looney’s career at BP unravelled

    Chief executive’s abrupt exit has left oil major facing questions over its culture

    Bernard Looney and a BP logo
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    BP PLC
    BP chair rules himself out as next chief executive

    Helge Lund has sought to reassure investors following Bernard Looney’s abrupt departure

    BP chair Helge Lund
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    CEO exit throws wrench into BP

    US inflation rises in August as petrol prices jump

  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    BP PLC
    BP’s board started fresh probe into Bernard Looney’s conduct last week

    New claims regarding undisclosed relations with colleagues precipitated chief executive’s exit

    Bernard Looney
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    BP PLC
    BP chief Bernard Looney resigns over past relationships with colleagues

    Irish executive has led British oil major since 2020

    Bernard Looney
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    News in-depthRenewable energy
    Governments join race for commercial fusion power

    Goal of abundant, zero-carbon electricity from fusing atoms brings together private and public sector

    The National Ignition Facility’s preamplifier module increases the laser energy as it travels to the Target Chamber in an undated photograph at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory federal research facility in Livermore, California, US
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    Oil
    Oil hits $90 for first time in 2023 as Saudi Arabia and Russia extend cuts

    Prolonged reductions likely to raise tensions with White House

    Oil storage tanks in Saudi Arabia
  • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
    Oil & Gas industry
    Could Namibia be the next oil frontier?

    Shell and Total search for fields off coast of southern African nation that could make it world’s newest petrostate

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  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    Energy sector
    Start-up taps carbon markets to boost clean cooking in Africa

    Koko Networks has raised more than $100mn through carbon finance

  • Friday, 11 August, 2023
    Oil
    Global oil demand hits record and may move higher, says IEA

    Consumption data shows global efforts to cut carbon emissions are yet to have significant impact

    Workers unload an oil barrel from a ship at a jetty in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2015
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    Behind the Money podcast17 min listen
    How Dubai is reshaping the global oil trade

    Sanctions on Russian exports has led to a shift in oil trading to a new domain in the Middle East. Will it stay there?

  • Monday, 7 August, 2023
    Energy sector
    German fusion start-up joins with US university to build laser facility

    Munich’s Marvel Fusion and Colorado State to build first site dedicated to commercial fusion energy research

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  • Monday, 7 August, 2023
    Saudi Aramco
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    Group reaffirms huge capital spending programme despite fall in Q2 profits

    Saudi Aramco logo is pictured at an oil facility in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia
  • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
    Energy sector
    US scientists repeat fusion power breakthrough

    Federal laboratory experiment produces more energy than during landmark test last year

    An image showing blue light travelling through a container with a bright light at its centre
  • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
    Oil & Gas industry
    Saudi Arabia says it could deepen oil production cuts

    Fresh curbs risk stand-off with US, which wants lower prices to boost economy and squeeze Russian revenues

    Oil storage tanks in the Keihin industrial area in Kawasaki, Japan
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
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  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    BP PLC
    BP raises dividend despite 70% profit drop

    Second-quarter earnings plunge to $2.6bn on lower refining margins

    BP’s logo at a petrol station in Surrey, England
  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    Climate change
    UAE state energy company brings forward net zero target to 2045

    Announcement made as Gulf country prepares to host COP28 climate talks

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  • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
    Oil & Gas industry
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    Focus likely to return to decarbonisation as supply threat brought by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine recedes

    A BP petrol station sign in Essex
  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    Exxon Mobil Corp
    ExxonMobil profits slide as oil prices return to ‘normal’

    US group becomes latest oil major to report shrinking earnings as prices moderate following jump caused by Ukraine war

    A car drives past storage tanks with the ‘Esso-ExxonMobil’ logo of the Esso-ExxonMobil refinery site
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    Shell PLC
    Shell and Total profits shrink as oil and gas prices fall

    Shares hold steady despite sharp drop in energy groups’ earnings

    A Shell truck parked outside an oil refinery
  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    The Big Read
    How Dubai became ‘the new Geneva’ for Russian oil trade

    When Switzerland joined sanctions against Moscow, a chunk of the world’s oil trade relocated to the Middle East. Some predict it will stay there

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