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    David Sheppard runs the FT’s energy and environmental coverage reporting on companies as they navigate the energy transition, oil and gas markets, Opec, and the powerful trading houses that move the world’s natural resources.

    He was previously energy markets editor at the FT in London and a senior reporter at Reuters, working in London, New York and Iraq.

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    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      UK government expected to offer energy companies windfall tax relief

      Lower fuel prices spur hopes the levy will be reformed as sector is being encouraged to invest in new projects

    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      Commodities
      Profits at commodity traders hit record in 2022, say finance chiefs

      Companies set high-water mark unlikely to be repeated in 2023

    • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
      Oil & Gas industry
      Global commodity traders open to increasing Russian oil volumes

      Trafigura and Vitol bosses say they would increase activity if governments and banks give approval

    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      Commodities
      Commodity markets likely to escape banking crisis fallout, traders say

      Citadel and Trafigura expect no repeat of 2008 collapse of crude and metals prices

    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      News in-depthRussian business & finance
      Two companies, one trade: the switch that keeps Putin’s oil flowing

      Swiss-based Paramount’s Russian trading activity taken up by near-identically named Dubai entity as sanctions tightened

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      UK Budget
      UK energy bill support scheme extended to June

      Average household will save £160 in total, Treasury says

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      UK energy
      UK poised to redefine atomic power as ‘green’ in bid to pull in private investment

      Move comes as government is set to provide £80mn in seed funding for launch of Great British Nuclear

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Oil & Gas industry
      US taps big trading houses to help move price-capped Russian oil

      Treasury officials reassure world’s largest commodity traders over return to shipping Russian barrels

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Harbour Energy
      UK oil and gas group Harbour Energy says windfall tax ‘has all but wiped out’ profit

      Company warns it will shift investment overseas after earnings slide despite high oil and gas prices

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Gunvor Group Ltd
      Adnoc and Gunvor deal talks reach impasse

      Co-founder of Switzerland-based energy trading company said to be reluctant to yield control to Abu Dhabi group

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Natural gas
      Gunvor chief says loss of Russian gas will cement US export role

      Energy executives see lasting change in global energy market after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      UK risks wasting huge wind power opportunity, energy boss warns

      Scottish Power chief says urgent reforms to planning process are needed for shift to greener energy

    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      UK energy
      Treasury looking at U-turn on planned cut to UK energy subsidies

      Hope for action on preventing fresh spike in household bills with room for manoeuvre in Budget

    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      Inside BusinessEnvironment
      Wanted: one supertanker to stop an eco-disaster

      Ship needed to transfer 1mn barrels of oil from stricken FSO Safer moored off the coast of Yemen

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      UK energy
      UK energy regulator lowers household price cap

      Consumers will still pay more from April as government reduces subsidies

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Global markets ride Ukraine war roller-coaster

      Wild moves were seen after Russia’s invasion but while inflation remains high many have adjusted to the disruption

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why a UN vote on Ukraine may show global shift against Russia’s war Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter: why Europe can’t be cocky about weathering the energy crisis

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      EU energy
      Europe’s energy war with Russia is not over, warns IEA chief

      Fatih Birol says continent has benefited from mild winter but has ‘much more to do’ to diversify supplies

    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      Carbon trading
      EU carbon price tops €100 a tonne for first time

      Record cost of polluting is landmark for one of EU’s critical tools to cut emissions

    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      UK energy
      Campaigners call for freeze on UK household energy costs

      Falling gas prices seen as reducing the subsidies that government would need to provide

    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      EU energy
      Netherlands warns of Russian attempts to sabotage its energy infrastructure

      Dutch military intelligence reports on activities indicating espionage and other potential disturbance

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      Natural gas
      European natural gas prices fall to 18-month low as energy crisis ebbs

      Mild weather boosts confidence that Europe will avoid shortages this winter and next

    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      Energean Oil & Gas Plc
      Israel’s first crude oil exports to start from Energean project

      Shipment marks landmark for country long reliant on imports for energy security

    • Sunday, 12 February, 2023
      Ineos Group Ltd
      Ineos bucks energy crisis to secure €3.5bn for Europe petchem plant

      Jim Ratcliffe’s company plans to develop a new energy-efficient cracker in Antwerp

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Oil
      Russia to cut oil output in response to price cap by west

      Reduction of 500,000 barrels a day targets ‘countries of the collective west’, says deputy PM

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