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Jamie Smyth

US Energy Editor

Jamie Smyth is the US energy editor of the Financial Times. He is based in the New York bureau and manages a team covering the US oil, gas and renewables sectors. He previously worked as the FT’s US pharmaceutical correspondent, Australia correspondent and Ireland correspondent.

Prior to the FT he reported for The Irish Times newspaper in Brussels and Dublin.

Email Jamie Smyth @JamieSmythF  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Chevron in talks to sell Texas gas assets to Tokyo Gas for up to $1bn

    Deal would bolster Japanese group’s drive to secure supplies for home country, which relies on fossil fuel imports for energy

    Tokyo Gas logo
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Oil
    Oil surges above $80 as conflict and storm spark supply fears

    Hedge funds reverse short positions as market has surged nearly 20% from year-to-date low in the last month

    OIl barrels stacked on top of each other
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Is the Middle East on the brink of an ‘oil war’?

    Israel is considering attacks on Iranian energy sites, for which Iran might then retaliate, affecting global supplies

    Flames and thick black smoke rise from an oil refinery in Birjand, Iran
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Shale Oil & Gas
    Top shale boss says US ‘unusually vulnerable’ to Middle East oil shock

    Harold Hamm blames Joe Biden for decision to drain strategic petroleum reserve in recent years

    Harold Hamm speaking during an interview in his office in Oklahoma City
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Oil
    Oil prices climb as Iran missile attack prompts supply fears

    Barrage sends Brent crude up amid concerns of wider war in critical energy region

    Projectiles fly over the Upper Galilee, northern Israel
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    Trump’s fracking claims hit Harris’s US election hopes

    Many voters in swing state of Pennsylvania do not trust vice-president’s stance on shale gas

    Montage of Donald Trump speaking into a microphone and pointing to the right; Kamala Harris standing at a podium with microphones; and a shale gas well drilling site in Pennsylvania.
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Climate change
    US climate change targets threatened by tech energy surge from AI

    Lack of grid capacity proves significant constraint in green energy transition as demand booms

    People at Climate Week NYC
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Energy Source
    TotalEnergies to appeal landmark greenwashing ruling in South Africa Premium content

    The country’s ad regulator found the French oil company’s sustainability claims ‘misleading’ in a first of its kind ruling

    The TotalEnergies logo at a charging station
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Trump’s plan to gut climate law would be self-harm, US energy chief says

    Jennifer Granholm tells FT the ex-president’s vow to undo Inflation Reduction Act would benefit China

    Jennifer Granholm
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Commodities
    Western nations join forces to break China’s grip on critical minerals

    Coalition of 14 governments announces financing network for projects to provide raw materials required by tech industry

    A nickel processing plant in Sorowako, Indonesia where Chinese investment has helped the Southeast Asian nation gain an effective monopoly in the metal
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Nuclear energy
    Microsoft in deal for Three Mile Island nuclear power to meet AI demand

    Energy source enjoying renaissance as world looks to slash emissions and feed rapidly growing need

    Three Mile Island nuclear power generating station
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Chevron boss blames Biden for pushing up energy prices

    Mike Wirth says White House’s ‘attacks’ on natural gas threaten energy security for US allies

    Mike Wirth speaks in an interview
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Renewable energy
    Green tech leaders fundraise for Harris as they warn of Trump threat

    Renewables companies fear the former president could roll back Biden-era support measures

    Wind farm near  near Oakland, Maryland
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Energy Source
    Brookfield to invest up to $1.1bn in e-fuels start-up Infinium Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, Norway debates when it should halt oil and gas production

    A montage of the Brookfield logo on a mobile phone with a chart of financial data behind it
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Shell PLC
    Shell claims LNG group ‘wrongfully earned’ $3.5bn on shipment arbitrage

    Accusations are latest salvo in dispute between oil majors and Venture Global after pricing surge linked to Ukraine war

    A flare burns at Venture Global LNG in Cameron, Louisiana
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Abu Dhabi National Oil Co
    Abu Dhabi to invest billions in Exxon’s Texas hydrogen project

    Plan for world’s largest low-emission plant of its kind in limbo over push for US subsidies

    Darren Woods Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, and Ahmed al-Jaber are seen at an event for the signing of the deal.
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    News in-depthUK economy
    Green investors ‘positive’ about new UK government but doubts remain

    Labour ministers say Britain has become a more attractive destination thanks to political stability

    Sir Keir Starmer
  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    Big Oil calls on Harris to come clean on energy and climate plans

    Democratic presidential candidate has dropped her opposition to fracking but still supports green transition

    Kamala Harris in Savannah
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    ExxonMobil
    Exxon warns of oil shock if suppliers assume demand will fall by 2050

    Bullish forecast from US supermajor contrasts with predictions of rapid transition form fossil fuel

    The ExxonMobil Baytown refinery in Baytown, Texas
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Plastic pollution
    US to support global treaty aiming to reduce production of plastic

    Backing from one of world’s largest producers will boost prospect of UN agreement for manufacturing cap

    An art installation of a water tap leaking plastics while people clean up a beach in Chile
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Top US oil group expands in Russia as rivals pull out

    Texas-based company has signed new contracts and recruited hundreds of staff despite the war in Ukraine

    Schlumberger installation on a drilling site in Russia
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Energy Source
    Chevron’s deepwater breakthrough could drive oil production surge Premium content

    New technology may potentially bring billions of additional barrels of oil and gas within reach of producers

    A deepwater oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Energy Source
    ‘BYOP’: Americans bring their own power with outages on the rise Premium content

    US businesses are spending millions of dollars on private microgrids as threats to power reliability grow

    Crews work on a power line
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Energy Source
    Macquarie’s competing energy ambitions on display at AGM Premium content

    Australian bank is championing the renewables revolution but has yet to abandon its support for the oil and gas sector

    The logo of Macquarie
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    The Big Read
    The IEA’s divisive mission to decide the future of oil

    The International Energy Agency forecasts that the world will reach peak oil in 2029. Oil companies accuse it of playing climate politics

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