News

Mar 10, 2015 at 16:20 | MINING.com

MINING.com toured Chile’s El Teniente mine, the world's largest underground copper operation and the sixth biggest copper mine by reserve size.

Mar 09, 2015 at 17:07 | Andy Tully

Egypt’s deal with BP to jointly invest $12 billion to develop offshore gas fields shows that oil companies’ faith in the country’s political stability is gradually…

Mar 09, 2015 at 17:02 | Andy Tully

The American oil giant Occidental Petroleum Corp. has agreed to an undisclosed out-of-court settlement with members of a tribe of Peruvian natives in the Amazon basin,…

Mar 09, 2015 at 16:53 | Climate Progress

  Credit: Courtesy Of Solar Impulse© On Monday in Abu Dhabi, two Swiss pilots set off in a solar-powered airplane in…

Mar 06, 2015 at 15:26 | Andy Tully

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s administration’s assertion that it worked “aggressively” to ensure that Exxon Mobil Corp. reimbursed the state for environmental contamination isn’t changing any…

Mar 06, 2015 at 15:19 | Andy Tully

The precipitous drop in oil prices since last June has been bad financial news to oil companies big and small, some suffering lower profits in the…

Mar 05, 2015 at 16:32 | Andy Tully

Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) has been inundated by more than 1,800 applications from people interested in taking part in hearings on the proposed Energy East…

Mar 05, 2015 at 16:27 | Andy Tully

France’s state-owned nuclear enterprise Areva, coming off four straight years of losses, is focusing its attention on cost-cutting to restore its financial health, but also plans…

Mar 04, 2015 at 16:58 | Andy Tully

Ohio is suing BP for $33.3 million, saying it “double-dipped” by taking not only state money but also reimbursement from insurers to clean up spills from…

Mar 04, 2015 at 16:53 | Euan Mearns

This is the third in a monthly series of posts chronicling the action in the global oil market in 13 key charts. The February 2015 post…

Mar 04, 2015 at 16:31 | RFE/RL staff

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif have wrapped up three days of talks over Iran's nuclear program, as a…

Mar 03, 2015 at 16:20 | Andy Tully

Moscow and Kiev have agreed that Russian gas shipments to all of Ukraine, including some rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine, will continue through March, and so…

Mar 03, 2015 at 16:02 | Ron Patterson

The EIA has published their Petroleum Supply Monthly with all US production numbers through December 2014. The chart below shows the largest changes in December and Yearly production. Almost…

Mar 02, 2015 at 16:10 | Andy Tully

While the low price of gasoline has many in the United States considering a return to fuel-hungry vehicles, the price actually has been rising in the…

Mar 02, 2015 at 16:05 | Andy Tully

Russia has reversed its long-held opposition to selling foreign investors majority stakes in its strategic oil and gas fields, saying there would now be “no political…

Feb 27, 2015 at 14:43 | Andy Tully

Iberdrola, Spain’s largest electric utility, will buy UIL Holdings Corp. of New Haven, Conn., for about $3 billion in cash and shares to expand its presence…

Feb 27, 2015 at 14:36 | ISN Security Watch

Russia’s recent defiance of the United States and NATO has convinced some analysts that we now live in a multipolar world. Sunil Dasgupta, however, isn’t so…

Feb 26, 2015 at 15:41 | Andy Tully

Another North American energy company has taken a significant financial hit from the 8-month-old plunge in oil prices. This time it’s Encana Corp., the largest gas…

Feb 25, 2015 at 16:34 | Andy Tully

President Obama’s veto of legislation that would have allowed construction of the Keystone XL pipeline was directed only at the bill itself and doesn’t necessarily mean…

Feb 25, 2015 at 16:22 | Global Risk Insights

Estimates show that Lebanon has significant offshore energy reserves, including more than 120 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. International firms have lined up to begin…