Energy Top Stories

Canada’s energy patch sees ‘significant’ boost in investment

Investment in Canadian oil sands, the world’s third largest oil reserves, will jump by a third to C$11.6 billion this year.

Bloomberg News | January 20, 2022 | 1:04 pm

Terra, CanAlaska sign deal for two uranium projects in Saskatchewan

Australia’s Terra Uranium has signed a deal to earn up…

Northern Miner Staff | January 20, 2022 | 8:16 am

Mining’s top ten ‘S’ trends in ESG for 2022

ESG action is now considered critical to both business and…

Elizabeth Freele and Rachel Dekker | January 20, 2022 | 6:22 am

Woodside Petroleum forecasts higher annual output

It expects higher full-year annual output than 2021, as it…

Reuters | January 19, 2022 | 3:00 pm

Powerful clouds of methane spotted over Chinese coal mines

Like many other countries, including the US and Canada, China…

Bloomberg News | January 19, 2022 | 1:50 pm

Saudi Arabia targets $64B in mining revenue by 2030

Mining vast untapped reserves of bauxite, phosphate, gold, copper and uranium is key to the Saudi Arabia's efforts to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons.

Reuters | November 26, 2018 | 9:06 am

MacMines Australia gets environmental nod for mega coal mine in Queensland

The company's 20,000-hectare China Stone thermal coal project is expected to produce 38 million tonnes of coal annually.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 26, 2018 | 5:38 am

Rio Tinto sells stake in Rossing uranium mine to China

The company is selling its 69%-stake in Rossing Uranium Limited, which owns the Namibian mine, to China National Uranium Corporation (CNUC).

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 26, 2018 | 3:20 am

Oil heads for seventh weekly loss on signs of global supply glut

Demand for Saudi crude may be lower in January compared with December - Khalid Al-Falih

Reuters | November 23, 2018 | 9:42 am

UK’s Banks Mining wins challenge to government rejection of new coal mine

Britain's High Court quashed the government's rejection of the new mine on the grounds that the minister did not provide adequate evidence for his decision.

Reuters | November 23, 2018 | 9:26 am

Sibanye shuts gold mines in South Africa as strike turns violent

Operations at Driefontein, Kloof and Beatrix mines were halted late on Wednesday.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 22, 2018 | 5:58 am

Global oil demand under growing threat from electric cars, cleaner fuel

Analysis shows oil consumption growing in coming decades, due to rising petrochemicals, trucking and aviation demand but meeting this growth in the near term means that approvals of conventional oil projects need to double.

Reuters | November 21, 2018 | 3:46 pm

A viable alternative to LNG

Our options are actually quite limited when it comes to the globe’s energy dilemma, the answer is nuclear energy and lithium-ion battery storage technology. Now all we need to do is convince the politicians.

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | November 21, 2018 | 11:26 am

Indonesia’s push for electrification and its impact on domestic coal – report

Due to better coal economics and relatively unsupportive renewable energy policies, we expect coal to still dominate the fuel mix at more than 60% from now until 2027.

Wood Mackenzie | November 21, 2018 | 10:59 am

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