Trading saved European Big Oil from the full impact of this year’s oil crisis. It’s not the first time that massive profits from in-house trading desks ameliorated poor operating results from the core business of finding and producing hydrocarbons - and it won’t be the last.
But the companies may struggle to carry this safety net into the era of decarbonisation.
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