Tom Bergin

Position: Europe, Middle East and Africa Oil and Gas Correspondent
Tom is responsible for our coverage of the oil and gas industry in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has held this role for almost five years, during which he has been involved in all the industry’s biggest stories, interviewed the CEOs of the world’s biggest oil companies, reported from around a dozen countries and become a regular contributor on television and radio programmes. Tom joined Reuters in 2001 and has previously been European Mergers & Acquisitions Correspondent and Senior UK Economics Correspondent. Before becoming a reporter, Tom worked in the financial services industry. Tom is Irish. He was educated ...

Articles

Heritage sells fields to Eni, ends Genel talks November 23, 05:37pm EST 

LONDON (Reuters) - British oil explorer Heritage Oil <HOIL.L> agreed to sell its Ugandan interests to Italian Eni <ENI.MI> for up to $1.5 billion, enabling Heritage to back out of a planned Kurdish tie-up which Iraqi political disputes made ...  Full Article 

Blog Posts

Exxon envy?

  A cynic might say they had seen it all before: New CEO of a big oil company, which is under pressure from shareholders, announces a wide-ranging restructuring that will make the company look like the ...  Full Article 

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Will Spain face Russian ire for snubbing LUKOIL's Repsol bid?

If Lithuania’s experience is anything to go by, Spain may regret its declaration that it would rather Russian oil company LUKOIL did not buy a major stake in its largest refiner, Repsol.    Russian ...  Full Article 

Will invasion of Georgia steel EU into kicking its addiction to Russian oil and gas?

As George Bush might say, the EU is addicted to Russian energy. While no member wants to kick the habit totally, Brussels would like the bloc to reduce its growing dependence. Even before Moscow invaded ...  Full Article | Comments [1]