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4 November 2025
North Sea Storm
Poised to take control of ‘the backbone of the UK’s energy production’, Franceso Mazzagatti is defending allegations bribery, forgery and fraud
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6 October 2025
Shadow fleet slicks test limits of EU sanctions
The West has sanctioned more than 400 ships carrying Russian oil. The slicks keep coming
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4 February 2025
Shadow Crews
EU and Ukrainian companies are manning the ships carrying Putin’s oil
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23 November 2024
Toxic Trade
African cities are choking as UK refineries export dirty fuels banned in Europe
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3 November 2024
Oil lobbyists ‘greenwashing’ Azerbaijan for climate summit
Teneo, a US firm with close ties to the oil industry, will earn millions for enhancing the image of the petrostate as it jails climate activists and ramps up fossil fuel investment
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17 October 2024
Dark Water
How Putin's shadow fleet is illegally dumping oil across the globe
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27 September 2024
Burning Skies
The true toll of Big Oil's gas flaring in Africa and the Middle East
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11 July 2024
BP venture sells carbon offsets by ‘saving’ trees that aren’t in danger
Finite Carbon runs the largest forest offsetting projects in the US. Analysis suggests they aren’t doing what they claim
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28 June 2024
‘Plug and abandon’
Is the oil company that polluted Poole Harbour now risking disaster in the North Sea?
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24 February 2024
‘Fool’s bargain’
The secret payments behind a deal that brought a country to its knees
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7 December 2023
Trojan Horsepower
Formula 1 and the Saudi oil lobby: a tie-up between petrolheads and petrodollars is more than just an exercise in ‘soft power’
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