53 h. ago BP reopens mammoth North Sea field after Donald Trump warned Britain was wasting 'a treasure chest' of oil and gas

The British energy company is reopening the Murlach field, 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen, after it was declared uneconomic and taken out of use in 2004.

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56 h. ago BP reopens huge North Sea field in defiance of Ed Miliband after Donald Trump warned Britain was wasting 'a treasure chest' of oil and gas

The British energy company is reopening the Murlach field, 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen, after it was declared uneconomic and taken out of use in 2004.

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4 d. ago ‘Erasure of years of work’: outcry as White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling

US Bureau of Land management is working to rapidly strip protections to largest tract of land in the USThe Trump administration’s plan to expand oil and gas drilling in a 23m acre reserve on the Arctic Ocean is sparking an impassioned response, amid fears it threatens Arctic wildlife, undermines the subsistence rights of Alaska Natives and imperils one of the fastest-warming ecosystems on Earth.More than a quarter of a million people have responded to the 2 June proposal from the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to roll back protections on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), the largest tract of public land in the US. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy – don’t let Russia ‘deceive us in the details’

Clock ticking to secondary sanctions on Friday; majority still trust Zelenskyy but rating down after anti-corruption debacle. What we know on day 1,261Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia seemed “more inclined to a ceasefire” after a visit to Moscow on Wednesday by a US envoy. “The pressure on them works. But the main thing is that they do not deceive us in the details – neither us nor the US,” Ukraine’s president said in his nightly address.Despite the engagement, sanctions targeting Russian oil “are still expected to be implemented on Friday”, a senior Trump administration official said on Wednesday, according to Reuters. Separately, Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, said he did not want to exaggerate the progress made during Steve Witkoff’s talks with Putin. Many “impediments” remained, especially Russia’s territorial claims, and there was no concrete proposal for a ceasefire. There have been unconfirmed reports that the Kremlin could propose a halt to long-range strikes by both...

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6 d. ago Trump threatens India with 50% tariffs for buying Russian oil

An Indian government source said it needs to gradually repair ties with the U.S. and engage more with the BRICS bloc

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7 d. ago Trump threatens to take ‘federal control’ of DC after Doge staffer attack – US politics live updates

President claims on social media that DC is ‘totally out of control’ and if the city doesn’t ‘get it’s act together’ he will have ‘no choice but to take Federal control’After taking six months to conclude that Vladimir Putin may not be a kindred transactional authoritarian leader but an ideological nationalist seeking the return of what “belongs to Russia”, the deadline Donald Trump set for the Russian president to agree a Ukraine ceasefire or face US sanctions on oil exports arrives on Friday.What Trump – who some had claimed was a Russian asset – does next to punish Putin could define his presidency. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump hits India with extra 25% tariff for Russia oil purchases

US president issues executive order after envoy’s talks in Moscow

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7 d. ago World awaits Trump’s next move as Russia ceasefire deadline approaches

US president has been unusually reticent about plans to punish Russia if it does not agree to end Ukraine warEurope live – latest updatesAfter needing six months to conclude that Vladimir Putin may not be a kindred transactional authoritarian leader, but an ideological nationalist seeking the return of what “belongs to Russia”, the deadline Donald Trump set for the Russian president to agree a Ukraine ceasefire or face US sanctions on oil exports arrives on Friday.What Trump – who some had claimed was a Russian asset – does next to punish Putin could define his presidency. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago A look at the top buyers of Russian oil as Trump pressures China and India to stop buying it

U.S. President Donald Trump is urging China and India to stop buying oil from Russia

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8 d. ago India calls Trump’s tariff threat over Russian oil purchases ‘unjustified’

New Delhi lambasts US and EU saying ‘very nations criticising India are themselves indulging in trade with Russia’

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9 d. ago Top Trump aide says India financing Putin’s war in Ukraine by buying Russian oil

White House official says India ‘basically tied with China in purchasing Russian oil’ as Delhi defies sanctions threat

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9 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Top Trump aide accuses India of financing Russian war by buying oil

Stephen Miller says it’s astonishing that ‘India is basically tied with China in purchasing Russian oil’; 120 firefighters needed to put out blaze at Sochi oil depot. What we know on day 1,258See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageA top aide to President Donald Trump has accused India of financing Russia’s war in Ukraine by buying oil from Moscow, after the US leader escalated pressure on Delhi to stop buying Russian oil. “What he [Trump] said very clearly is that it is not acceptable for India to continue financing this war by purchasing the oil from Russia,” said Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff at the White House and one of the US president’s most influential aides. Miller’s criticism on Sunday was some of the strongest yet by the Trump administration about one of the US’s major partners in the Indo-Pacific. “People will be shocked to learn that India is basically tied with China in purchasing Russian oil. That’s an astonishing fact,” Miller said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning ...

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4 w. ago Trump’s sanctions on Russia would be ‘extremely painful’ for US and risk global oil price spike, experts warn

Trump has threatened 100% ‘secondary tariffs’ on likes of India and China, which experts warn could cause a global spike in oil prices

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4 w. ago Trump to unveil $70bn AI and energy plan at summit with oil and tech bigwigs

Pittsburgh event angers climate groups as Trump ties AI expansion to oil and gas, sidelining renewable energyDonald Trump will join big oil and technology bosses on Tuesday at a major artificial intelligence and energy summit in Pittsburgh, outraging environmentalists and community organizations. The event comes weeks after the passage of a megabill that experts say could stymy AI growth with its attacks on renewable energy.The inaugural Pennsylvania energy and innovation summit, held at Carnegie Mellon University, will attempt to position the state as an AI leader, showcasing the technological innovation being developed in the city and the widespread availability of fossil fuel reserves to power them. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Trump unveils $70bn AI and energy plan at summit with oil and tech bigwigs

Pittsburgh event angers climate groups as Trump ties AI expansion to oil and gas, sidelining renewable energyDonald Trump joined big oil and technology bosses on Tuesday at a major artificial intelligence and energy summit in Pittsburgh, outraging environmentalists and community organizations.The event came weeks after the passage of a megabill that experts say could stymy AI growth with its attacks on renewable energy. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Donald Trump tells Starmer to 'bring back the oil' and banish windfarms ahead of Aberdeen meeting

Donald Trump is poised for Aberdeen talks with Keir Starmer and John Swinney later this month.

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4 w. ago Trump says he will meet Starmer in ‘oil capital’ of Aberdeen

The US president is due to visit Scotland later this month.

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4 w. ago Donald Trump to meet Keir Starmer in 'oil capital' Aberdeen later this month

The US President called the city "the oil capital of Europe" and said to "get rid of the windmills."

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