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Barclays Warns Traders against Chasing High Oil Prices
Oil Price
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July 30, 2025
Traders shouldn’t bet too much on rallying oil prices despite President Trump’s shortened deadline for Russia to reach peace with Ukraine or face sanctions, Barclays says. “President Trump’s patience with Russia seems to be wearing thin, and oil...
Tullow Oil Director Sheila Khama Steps Down After Six-Year Tenure
News Ghana
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July 30, 2025
Tullow Oil plc (TLW) announced the resignation of Independent Non-Executive Director Sheila Khama effective 1 August 2025. Khama cited a need to focus on “other professional commitments” beyond the Africa-focused energy firm. Chairman Phuthuma...
AGL Advances Energy Transition with Major Battery Project in NSW
Kalkine Media
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July 30, 2025
Highlights,AGL to build a new grid-scale battery in New South Wales,Project to enhance flexible energy asset portfolio,Focus on long-term growth in the clean energy space,Expanding the Energy Storage Infrastructure,AGL Energy (ASX:AGL), a...
The UK consults on its draft Sustainability Reporting Standards
JD Supra - California
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July 30, 2025
[co-author: Tessa Brockway] What do businesses need to know, and how can they prepare? Introduction On June 25, 2025, the UK government initiated a consultation (the Consultation) on the exposure draft of the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards...
Greens slam Reform for taking ‘big oil’ donations
The London Economic
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July 30, 2025
The Green Party has slammed Reform UK for taking “big oil” donations after one of its mayors was accused of serving fossil fuel interests. Nigel Farage’s newly elected Greater Lincolnshire mayor, Andrea Jenkyns, openly denied believing in climate...
India to make one last push to square series against Stokes-less England in fifth Test starting today
The Economic Times
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July 30, 2025
The action on the field has been so intense and protracted in the four Tests that you would have thought any downtime would be a chance to be still, calm, regroup and return with energy topped up. But that’s not how things panned out. India were...
Auckland’s Mint Innovation secures $18m to recycle EV batteries for Jaguar Land Rover in the UK
The New Zealand Herald
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July 30, 2025
The required scale to hit profit He tells the Herald a demo plant has already been created: “It’s dealing with 500kg batches of material, which is not commercial, but enables you to design the kind of massive energy balances, all of the protocols,...
Trump imposes 25% tariff on India over energy purchases from Russia
The Economic Times
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July 30, 2025
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday unexpectedly announced a 25% tariff on India, along with an unspecified additional penalty, to punish the country for making energy purchases from Russia, launching a broadside against ongoing bilateral trade...
Leeds-Based Legal Executive Assistants Launch UK’s First Regional Support Network
Lancashire Times
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business The Legal Executive Assistant Network (LEAN), the UK’s first region-specific network for legal executive assistants (EAs), personal assistants (PAs), and other legal support professionals, launched earlier this month with its inaugural...
The Most Over-Engineered Motorcycle Ever Built Is The Britten V100
TopSpeed
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July 30, 2025
How do you make an over-engineered motorcycle? The big manufacturers would have you believe that it requires a massive budget, tons of resources, and some of the world's brightest minds working on it. However, one motorcycle builder would digress....
Miotto’s Musings: Dovbyk Drawing Transfer Interest in England and Spain, €50 Million Price Tag for Nusa & More
Chiesa Di Totti
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July 30, 2025
When the summer mercato started, Roma’s goal was to usher in a major reset of the squad and its ambitions under new manager Gian Piero Gasperini, with the clear goal being a long-awaited return to the Champions League. Frederic Massara was brought...
‘Other Countries Are Making Offers’: Trump Announces Oil Reserve Deal With Pakistan
Daily Wire
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July 30, 2025
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that Pakistan had agreed to a deal with the United States that involved “developing their massive Oil Reserves,” and said that several other countries were already waiting in the wings to offer trade...
Jenna Ortega Put a Fresh Spin on Dark Feminine Energy Makeup at the ‘Wednesday’ Premiere
Glamour
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July 30, 2025
Wednesday season two is finally here—and Jenna Ortega kicked off the global premiere red carpet with a bang. For the event, the actor put a fresh spin on dark feminine energy makeup, the vampy and gothic beauty trend she popularized with her...
T&P’s UK boss on bringing creative and media together: ‘I’m very hands-on’
Campaign
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Victoria Appleby’s first day at T&P was something of a baptism of fire. At the Odeon in London’s Leicester Square, the UK chief executive found herself on stage, presenting to hundreds of staff at the agency. This is not the normal course of...
Countries failing to act on UN climate pledge to triple renewables, thinktank finds
The Guardian
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July 30, 2025
Most global governments have failed to act on the 2023 UN pledge to triple the world’s renewable energy capacity by the end of the decade, according to climate analysts. The failure to act means that on current forecasts the world will fall far...
Trump announces 25% tariff on India and penalties for buying Russian oil
Arab Times
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July 30, 2025
President Donald Trump, right, speaks with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP) WASHINGTON, July 30, (AP): President Donald Trump said Wednesday that...
UK’s Starmer, Oman’s sultan agree to deepen ties in energy, defence and tech
WHTC - Michigan
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July 30, 2025
LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said agreed on Wednesday to deepen collaboration across energy, technology, defence and security, a Downing Street spokesperson said. During talks in...
Mitsui & Co. Europe & Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Acquire Port of Nigg from Global Energy Group
Offshore Source - Florida
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Global Energy Group (GEG) has reached an agreement on the sale of three of its group companies - including The Port of Nigg - to long term investor, Mitsui & Co. Europe Ltd (Mitsui) a subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., together with, Mitsui O.S.K....
Storing renewable energy raises safety concerns
Altamont Enterprise - New York
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July 30, 2025
The large-scale storage of renewable energy is both the law and lucrative for those building the facilities. But, if disaster should strike, the fallout will likely be dealt with by a largely unpaid group of volunteers. The issue was brought home...
PXP Energy Q2 net loss widens to P13.37M
Business World
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July 30, 2025
PXP ENERGY CORP. saw a wider attributable net loss of P13.37 million for the second quarter of 2025, compared with P6.55 million in the same period last year, amid lower revenues and higher expenses. In a stock exchange disclosure on Wednesday,...