March 31, 2021

New fuel from plastic waste aims to replace fossil fuels in marine industry

Clean Planet Energy plans to use non-recyclable waste plastics to produce two fuels expected to reduce CO2 emissions from the marine industry by 75%.

March 29, 2021

Mexico says some miners returning permits to avoid taxes

President Lopez Obrador said the area dedicated to mining concessions was about 120 million hectares.

March 24, 2021

Chevron pulls plug on Kitimat LNG project in BC

Chevron owns a 50% stake in the project and will halt further funding after failing to find a buyer.

March 24, 2021

BHP presses to transform Australia’s ‘dysfunctional’ gas market

BHP is pressing for Australia's gas market to move away from opaque contract negotiations towards index-based deals.

March 19, 2021

MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week

Mining profits reach $230 billion a year, topped only by oil & gas, pharma; Lithium prices continue to soar – up 88% in 2021; Massive new port could give Vale…

March 11, 2021

Shell names former BHP CEO chair

Andrew Mackenzie will succeed Charles Holliday who will step down on May 18 after serving six years in the role.

March 9, 2021

geoLOGIC and JWN Energy to merge, creating a powerful energy intelligence combination

The move combines expertise in Canadian oil and gas upstream data and analytics with daily financial, operational and market intelligence.

March 9, 2021

Russel: China’s lacklustre commodity imports throw spanner in new super-cycle works

Overall, the picture that emerges from the commodity import data is that China is at best ticking along.

March 5, 2021

Rock and heavy metal: winners emerge in energy transition

As world economies shift to more electrification and away from fossil fuels to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, expect more copper mining and interest in metals like cobalt and…

February 24, 2021

Keystone XL’s death sparks rush to ship oil-sands crude by rail

Cenovus Energy Inc. and Imperial Oil Ltd. have increasingly turned to trains to move their crude, with oil exports by rail from Canada more than tripling since July.