Raise your hands if Donald Trump will affect your business this year,” the audience at one of the industry events taking place on the sidelines of London’s International Energy Week (IE Week) was told this week. If anyone in the audience kept their hands down, they were in a very small minority.

The first month of US President Donald Trump’s second term in office has upended global geopolitical norms, with the new administration re-examining core policy positions through the ‘America First’ lens. Amid White House pronouncements on the Ukraine conflict, trade tariffs, preferred oil prices and sanctions on Russian and Iranian energy exports, global energy markets are highly exposed to the shifting policy landscape. (CONTINUED - 1060 WORDS)