Oil prices tumbled by nearly 5% on Tuesday after Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Iran after nearly two weeks of conflict. Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, fell to $68 a barrel, which is below the level it was at when Israel launched missiles against Iran’s nuclear sites on 13 June. Prices...
Mary McCool BBC Scotland News PA Media Operators now have to carry out assessments that take emissions from burning oil and gas into account The UK government has published guidance on how it will consider fresh applications for oil and gas projects. Operators will now have to draw up new environmental impact assessments that take...
David Wallace Lockhart BBC Scotland political correspondent PA Media Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said the windfall tax on oil and gas companies needs to be axed while addressing a Scottish Conservatives party conference in Edinburgh Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has called for an end to the windfall tax on oil and gas companies and...
Global oil prices have jumped after Israel said it had struck Iran, in a dramatic escalation of tensions in the Middle East. The price of the benchmark Brent crude was up by more than 10% shortly after the news emerged, reaching its highest level since January. Traders are concerned that a conflict between Iran and...
Anbarasan Ethirajan South Asia Regional Editor Bonhams The oil portrait of Mahatma Gandhi was painted in the UK in 1931 A rare oil portrait of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi – painted in 1931 in the UK – will be auctioned in London next month. Gandhi led a non-violent resistance movement against British rule in...
Fritz Pinnow Reporter, Comayagua, Honduras Fritz Pinnow Hugo Daniel Chávez is proud of the soap his team makes from recycled cooking oil Few 27-year-olds look at used cooking oil and see a green business opportunity to produce soap or dog food. But that is what Hugo Daniel Chávez, a project manager for the NGO Sustenta...
For a state with so many natural resources, which could, if it wanted to, be its own pretty decent sized, independent, self-sufficient kingdom, damn do they have some stupidly obstinate ideologues. I know, I know – I can hear you guys from here. DUH, BEEGE It never ceases to amaze me how so few hysterical...
Part of the Series Covering Climate Now This article by ExxonKnews is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. Less than a day after the Trump administration filed a lawsuit aiming to stop Hawaiʻi from taking oil companies to court for their role in the climate crisis, the state last...
Douglas Fraser Business and economy editor, Scotland Getty Images There is concern over the pace of transition for oil and gas workers into the renewables sector The Great Energy Transition is under way, and may come to define this era, but it’s not going smoothly. For the oil and gas sector, a further sign of...
A Peruvian navy vessel has collided with an oil platform in the Amazon River, killing at least two people and leaving one missing. The collision happened in the early hours of Friday morning at the junction of the Napo and Amazon rivers, causing “severe damage”, Peru’s defence ministry said. Thirty crew members were rescued from...
This article was originally published by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization. Find out more at publichealthwatch.org. On August 6, 2012, a corroded, eight-inch pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, cracked open, sending a white cloud hundreds of feet into the air. The cloud quickly engulfed the 19 refinery firefighters, managers...
EPA Hundreds of people rallied in Westminster on Saturday afternoon for Just Stop Oil’s “last day of action” Hundreds of Just Stop Oil (JSO) protesters have marched through London for the group’s “last day of action”. A mass of people wearing JSO’s signature orange vests rallied in Westminster on Saturday afternoon after the group claimed...
Justin Rowlatt Climate Editor BBC Listen to Justin read this article Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists are dusting down their placards, digging out their infamous fluorescent orange vests, and charging up their loud hailers — a routine they have gone through many a time before. It has taken just three years of throwing soup, spraying...
PA Media The transfer of fuel from the Stena Immaculate is expected to take place over the weekend More than 200,000 barrels of jet fuel are to be removed from the oil tanker involved in a crash with a cargo ship in the North Sea. The US-registered tanker Stena Immaculate and the Portuguese-flagged Solong collided...