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Tom Wilson

Natural Resources Editor

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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  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Carlyle Group LP
    Buyout firm Carlyle to build Mediterranean oil and gas group

    Ex-BP boss Tony Hayward will run group after buyout firm acquires assets in Italy, Egypt and Croatia from Energean

    Energean offshore facility near Israel
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Energy Source
    Activists in South Africa renew fight with Shell over sea floor blasting Premium content

    Environmental groups set to challenge oil major’s right to refile for exploration rights in the country’s highest court

    A woman holds a placard on the beach at a protest against Shell’s plan to conduct underwater seismic surveys along South Africa’s east coast
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Billionaire under sanctions could get $300mn in controversial US-Congo deal

    Washington proposal would ease restrictions on Israeli tycoon Dan Gertler imposed over alleged corrupt dealing

    Dan Gertler
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Special ReportHydrogen
    Hydrogen industry calls for more support to accelerate low-carbon projects

    Additional incentives needed to create demand and boost supply, pioneers say

  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    BP PLC
    BP toughens workplace intimacy rules in wake of Looney sacking

    Oil major updates conflicts of interest policy after chief’s dismissal over failure to disclose past relationships to board

    BP petrol station in London
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Trafigura
    Trafigura profits slide more than 70% in sign that market volatility is ending

    Drop follows period of record earnings for biggest commodity traders after Ukraine war disrupted energy sector

    The Trafigura logo
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Inside BusinessMining
    The takeaway from BHP’s bid for Anglo: more mining investment is needed

    The industry requires backing to fulfil its critical role in decarbonising the global economy

    A worker at Anglo American’s Quellaveco copper mine in Peru
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    Opec+’s production conundrum

    The oil cartel’s move to let up on production cuts highlights the challenges it is facing

  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Opec
    Opec+ agrees to extend deep production cuts into next year

    Oil cartel tries to placate members while conceding it has little room to increase production

    Ministers from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, UAE, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman gather during the 37th OPEC+ ministerial meeting in Riyadh on Sunday
  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    Anglo American PLC
    Anglo chief admits selling De Beers is biggest challenge

    Miner has pledged to dispose of or list world’s biggest diamond business even as market remains weak

    A Hong Kong De Beers jewellery store
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Opec
    Riyadh summons energy ministers as Opec+ weighs surprise target for 2025

    Oil cartel wants to reassure members that 5.8mn barrels a day of cuts will not last for ever

    The logo of Opec is seen outside of their headquarters in Vienna,
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    News in-depthBHP Group Ltd
    ‘Project Badger’: how BHP’s bid for Anglo American unravelled

    Six-week-long pursuit failed but will leave its mark on the mining industry

    Montage of Mike Henry and Duncan Wanblad and a copper mine
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Saudi Aramco
    Saudi Arabia to sell $12bn worth of Saudi Aramco shares

    Offering in world’s largest oil exporter to be set in range of SR26.7-SR29 as kingdom seeks fresh capital

    Spheroids and pipelines at an oil processing plant
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    BHP Group Ltd
    BHP’s £39bn pursuit of Anglo American collapses

    Australian miner walks away after attempt to extend lengthy pursuit of London-listed rival rebuffed

    A smelter in South Africa operated by Anglo American
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    BHP Group Ltd
    BHP and Anglo face crunch as talks fail to progress

    Australian miner’s CEO is meeting Anglo investors as it seeks another deadline extension

    Anglo American’s Quellaveco copper mine, in Peru
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Opec
    Opec+ switches to online meeting as market expects cuts to continue

    Oil cartel cancels in-person ministerial gathering as prices hover around three-month lows

  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Anglo American PLC
    Anglo American extends deadline for BHP takeover after rejecting improved bid

    UK-listed miner says it will give an extra week for Australian rival to submit final proposal

    Workers walk to the Anglo American Platinum Waterval smelter in Rustenburg, South Africa
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Shell PLC
    Shell investors back oil major’s move to weaken climate targets

    Shareholders reject resolution by activist group Follow This urging tighter goals

    Environmental protesters at Shell’s annual shareholder meeting in London
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Energy Source
    Mining industry sceptical of EU joint purchasing plan for critical minerals Premium content

    Executives cast doubt on bloc’s plans to buy materials crucial to the energy transition as it did for Covid vaccines

    The Pilbara Minerals Ltd. Pilgangoora lithium project in Port Hedland, Western Australi
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    News in-depthAnglo American PLC
    Duncan Wanblad: the ‘used mine salesman’ blowing up Anglo American

    South African group’s chief executive must win over investors to fend off BHP’s unsolicited takeover bid

    Anglo American’s CEO Duncan Wanblad
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Mining
    Glencore chief backs South Africa as Anglo takeover battle rages

    Gary Nagle’s praise came hours after the country’s storied miner announced it would break itself up

    Workers inspect batches of processed copper at Mutanda Mining Sarl, owned (69%) by Glencore
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Nuclear energy
    EU rebuffs UK attempt to continue collaborating on nuclear fusion experiment

    Bloc tells London it will be locked out of Iter project in France within months unless it rejoins civil atomic programme

  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    Travel
    The man about to leap from an 8,000-metre peak

    Tim Howell is preparing not just to climb one of the world’s tallest mountains, but to jump off it — and make wingsuiting history

    A man leaps off the precipice of a mountain into a deep long fjord below
  • Monday, 6 May, 2024
    BP PLC
    BP shareholders expect oil group to scale back climate target

    Investors believe chief executive is prepared to be flexible as demand for oil and gas continues to grow

    A refinery in Germany
  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    News in-depthBHP Group Ltd
    How BHP’s ‘Meticulous Mike’ planned his Anglo American approach

    Mike Henry has positioned world’s largest miner for a big deal and was prepared for initial rejection by UK-listed target

    Mike Henry
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