Advisers warn group risks being unattractive to investors due to sprawling activities

Oil chief says Trump pledge would weaken country’s global standing

Brent benchmark drops below $50 raising doubts over sustainable recovery

First-quarter results for all five supermajors have beaten market expectations

Some groups query the need for further investment after shale-induced spending boom

Five European energy groups will provide loans to contentious project

Companies’ offshore licence caught up in Abuja’s anti-corruption drive

FTSE closes at a session low, even as the pound drifts back from a 6-month high

Memos raise fresh questions for Anglo-Dutch energy group over allegations of bribery

Environmentalists’ response in test case is blow to sector as decommissioning begins

Global companies including Bosch, Airbus and Novartis stress role in creating US jobs

Deal is third this month of international groups selling to Canadian specialists

Find adds to series of wells that may be biggest beneath UK waters this century

$1bn deal is latest sign of private equity investors buying mature oil and gasfields

Court reverses decision over exploration block at centre of corruption allegations

Electric cars, renewables and gas could end the era of rising crude consumption

Maersk and Shell to test out use of ‘rotor sails’ on vessels