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Oil

March 2025

  • people protest oil executives

    Democracy and justice
    US energy industry’s climate retreat is putting profits over people, advocates say

  • King Okpabi in blue robes, crown, and orange necklaces on a central London street

    Nigerian king faces Shell in London high court over decades of oil spills

  • Murray Auchincloss

    BP cuts boss’s pay by 30% after company misses profit targets

  • Silhouette of a drilling platform in the North Sea at sunset

    Ban on new drilling confirmed as ministers consult on North Sea’s ‘clean energy future’

  • Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows

  • How we survive
    At the bottom of the North Sea, out of air and with no hope of rescue, I said goodbye to all my dreams

  • BP dropping its green ambitions is a travesty. But that’s exactly how capitalism works

    Brett Christophers

February 2025

  • Central court at the British Museum; light shines through the glass roof around a cylindrical structure with galleries to the side. People are milling around and walking up and down steps; there are signs indicating Michelangelo and Japan exhibitions.

    Museums defend BP sponsorship after firm abandons climate targets

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Dirtier BP is still miles away from resetting its share price

    Nils Pratley
  • A BP petrol station in London

    BP blames ‘misplaced’ faith in green transition for its renewed focus on fossil fuels

  • A man in suit and open-necked shirt speaks from a lectern

    Why has BP pulled the plug on its green ambitions?

  • BP expected to scrap renewables target in shift back to fossil fuels

  • EU spends more on Russian oil and gas than financial aid to Ukraine – report

  • Redrawing of global energy markets map set to heap benefits on US

  • Observer business agenda
    Chill of inflation threatens Britain again after Europe’s long, hard winter

  • Offshore worker Robbie Robson was bludgeoned to death on an oil rig. Was it a random attack or does the industry have questions to answer?

  • Thirteen more oil and gas licences could be cancelled after Rosebank court ruling

  • Activist hedge fund reportedly amasses £3.8bn stake in BP

  • Trump names oil and gas advocate to lead agency that manages federal lands

  • Oil giant Chevron to lay off thousands in bid to cut up to 20% of global workforce

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