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Jobs are at risk and petrol supplies in the south east could be hit as the Coryton oil refinery stops production. But the energy minister tells Channel 4 News talk of panic buying is premature.

Oil company BP has asked contractor Halliburton to pay all of its billions of pounds of costs over the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.

David Cameron has given BP permission to begin a new £4.5bn oil project west of the Shetland Islands. BP says the investment will end a "decade of decline" in the industry.

Chancellor George Osborne signals he will use the budget to cancel the planned increase in fuel duty. Meanwhile Labour's Ed Miliband warns that families will be hardest hit by the cuts.

Libya becomes the first member state to be suspended by the UN Human Rights Council after a day of tension and the prospect of military action and civil war, as our Correspondents in Libya report.

New documents published today show that the previous Labour government did "all it could" to help Libya secure the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.

BP reports its first annual loss in nearly 20 years after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But as Siobhan Kennedy reports, the disaster has not stopped BP renewing its focus on deep sea exploration.

State-owned Russian oil giant Rosneft has taken a 5 per cent stake in BP, in the first major deal for BP since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, as Siobhan Kennedy writes.