The Australian reported that BHP Billiton is in talks to take up a 25% stake in a A$615million (US$733million) bauxite mine and alumina refinery in India`s eastern Orissa province. The deal would be BHP Billiton`s first project in India.
It also reported that Zinifex Ltd and its Belgian partner Umicore Group are believed to have appointed [...]
China aims to produce 193 million tonnes of oil and 92 billion cubic metres of natural gas by 2010, according to an energy blueprint released by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on April 10.
While the target represents a mere 5% growth in oil output compared to last year, or 2.12% in annual growth, [...]
Two separate coal mine accidents have trapped 45 workers underground, the official Xinhua news agency said, chronicling the latest tragedies to hit the world’s deadliest coal mining industry. Nine of 42 miners escaped after an explosion late Monday at the private Wangzhuang colliery in Henan Province, the report said. The condition of the remaining 33 [...]
China’s imports of iron ore jumped 23.4 percent in the first quarter from a year ago as companies piled up stock before international price hikes took effect this month, state media said Thursday.
In the first three months of this year, China imported 100.2 million tonnes of iron ore, up 23.4 percent year on year, the [...]
The owner of an illegal coal mine in northern China has been arrested for allegedly trying to cover up an accident that left at least 19 workers dead, state press reported Thursday.
Rescuers had found 19 bodies following a gas blast at the colliery in Shanxi province, China’s coal mining heartland, Xinhua news agency said, citing [...]
The death toll from a gas explosion in an illegal coal mine in northern China has risen to 20 with the discovery of another body.
The updated toll leaves just one more miner unaccounted for in the disaster in Shanxi province, in which rescue efforts were hampered by the mine owner’s attempts to cover it [...]
The owner of an illegal coal mine in northern China has been arrested for allegedly trying to cover up an accident that left at least 19 workers dead, state press reported Thursday.
Rescuers had found 19 bodies following a gas blast at the colliery in Shanxi province, China’s coal mining heartland, Xinhua news agency said, [...]
Fifteen miners were killed in a gas blast at a coal mine in central China’s Hunan province, state media said Thursday.
Miners were carrying out maintenance underground when the blast struck, it said. Seventeen miners escaped.
The explosion occurred Tuesday morning at Hongfa Coal Mine in Niumasi town, Shaodong county, Xinhua news agency reported, citing officials [...]
China National Petroleum Corp, the country’s largest oil and gas producer, plans to set up a joint venture with Yanchang Petroleum Group to explore for oil in northwestern Shaanxi province, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Li Xiaodong, director of the Shaanxi Development and Reform Commission, was quoted as saying that the two parties each plans [...]
Visiting Nicosia Thursday, Egypt’s petroleum minister said that his country will work closely with Cyprus and offer all necessary support in oil exploration and exploitation.
Amin Sameh Samir Fahmi made the remarks at the opening ceremony for the first round tender for offshore hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation licenses in the eastern Mediterranean launched by Cyprus on [...]
