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Aerospace & Defence
The UK’s attempt to make hypersonic flight a reality
...In 1967 the US’s X-15 hit a speed of 4,520mph — 6.7 times the speed of sound — when Major William Knight piloted the rocket-powered experimental aircraft....
January 9, 2023
FT Magazine
Inside the wild ‘Man vs Horse’ race that made a small Welsh town legend
...“We’ll be there, by hook or by crook!” One grey day in April I travel to Llanwrtyd Wells to meet the Green Events team as they prepare for a new season....
July 7, 2023
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
Travel
Travel discoveries of 2021
...It probably helps that the region feels like the Europe of our great-grandparents — horse-drawn wagons, unfenced pastures, shepherds with long crooks, virgin forests where bears still prowl, dangerous geese...
December 7, 2021
Energy Source
The week in energy: White petroleum
...They had not worked out how to isolate the new element, but that problem was quickly solved by the British chemists William Thomas Brande and Sir Humphry Davy, who used electrolysis to extract lithium soon...
February 17, 2018
News in-depthOil
Opec risks handing US shale drillers a gift with cut
...William Thomas, chief executive, told analysts on a call that cost reductions meant that with $50-$60 oil, “we are now capable of growing a compounded 15 per cent to 25 per cent annually”....
November 7, 2016
News in-depthUS & Canadian companies
The region leading the US oil recovery
...But William Thomas, EOG’s chief executive, told analysts on a call last month that it would spend 45 per cent of next year’s capital budget in the Delaware, a sub-basin on the western side of the Permian...
September 11, 2016
FT Live
Commodities Asia Summit
Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows
Wednesday, 6 NovemberSingapore
News in-depthDue Diligence
A case study for Chinese deals under Trump Premium content
...The FT's US industry and energy editor Ed Crooks says the quarter was powered by a confluence of trends: one that began in 2014, one that started last year and another that has really just gotten under way...
April 12, 2017
Robin Lane Fox
Chanticleer: a garden in Philadelphia that gets into the grooves
...Last year they produced a truly outstanding book, The Art of Gardening, (Timber Press, £25), written by the Chanticleer gardeners and R William Thomas, head gardener since 2003 after 26 years at Longwood...
February 19, 2016
Climate change
Business pioneers in energy
...Thomas Edison In popular memory, Thomas Edison is known as a great inventor, the creator of electric light, the phonograph and moving pictures....
March 31, 2015
US downturn
Shale groups rise to oil price challenge
...However, William Thomas, EOG’s chief executive, said on a call with analysts on Tuesday morning that the company had been building up a backlog of wells that had been drilled but not yet completed, and planned...
May 5, 2015
US & Canadian companies
US shale pioneers circle the wagons
...William Thomas, chief executive of EOG, said last week that even if oil fell to $40 the company could still earn a 10 per cent return in some areas, including the Bakken and the Eagle Ford shales....
November 12, 2014
Recruitment
More diverse opportunity stops short at prospects for women
...Two Texas-based roles had been the most important jobs in the career of William Thomas when he last year became chief executive of EOG Resources, one of the most successful US shale oil producers....
July 16, 2014
US politics & policy
New York fracking stalled by court ruling
...“It’s certainly going to send a negative message to the industry,” said Thomas West, a lawyer who represented Norse Energy Corp in the case....
July 4, 2014
US & Canadian companies
US has potential to be world’s biggest oil producer
...William Thomas, chief executive of EOG Resources, said on a call with analysts last month to discuss the company’s second quarter results that it had cut the average cost of a well in the Eagle Ford shale...
September 8, 2013
Simon Schama
What folly to think radicals do not love their country
...Thomas Carlyle’s Past and Present; William Morris’s News from Nowhere, the Marxist HM Hyndman’s England for All, John Ruskin’s threnodies on the countryside and the vanished, banished, craft of English masons...
October 4, 2013
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Life & Arts
The FT’s Summer books 2014
...… I Knew the Bride, by Hugo Williams, Faber, RRP£12.99 Speaking to us from the bar at the Savoy, a hospital ward or the kitchen sink, Williams gives us a selection of settings as meandering as his ideas...
June 27, 2014
News in-depthThe Big Read
US housing: After the gold rush
...William Brown, Ms Kot’s attorney, said: “The only people who are getting handcuffs put on them are the low hanging fruit....
October 29, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Pick of the crop
...Reviewing it for the FT, Ed Crooks called it meticulously researched, elegantly written and scrupulously even-handed....
June 29, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
The regeneration game
...Ed Crooks is the FT’s US industry and energy editor...
March 25, 2011
UK schools
Honours List
...John Winnard, director, William Santus & Co, maker of Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls. William Wisden, photographer....
June 10, 2011
US downturn
Obama gives GE chief key jobs role
...“The test will not be the administration’s words and intentions but its actions,” said Thomas Donohue, its president....
January 21, 2011
ReviewLife & Arts
Nonfiction round-up
...Ed Crooks FT US industry and energy editor ………………………………………….....
November 26, 2010
ReviewLife & Arts
Newton and the Counterfeiter
...Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist By Thomas Levenson Fabe5 £15.99, 299 pages FT Bookshop price: £12.79 Thomas Chaloner had a way with coinage....
August 3, 2009
FT AlphavilleTracy Alloway
CalPERS calls out Ken
..., William Barnet, III, Frank Bramble, Sr., John Collins, Gary Countryman, Tommy Franks, and Charles Gifford....
April 28, 2009
Vices and virtues
...I love the idea of an office that has produced, on the one hand, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt – but also Aaron Burr the murderer, Spiro Agnew the crook and a succession of magnificent nonentities...
March 1, 2008

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