August 5, 2021

BHP board approves $544 million spend for Shenzi North oil project development

Production is expected to begin in the 2024 financial year.

August 3, 2021

Top Ten US miners

Annual top-ten list of the largest US-based mining companies ranked by market capitalization

August 2, 2021

From miners to big oil, the great commodity cash machine is back

The Bloomberg Commodity Spot Index, a basket of nearly two dozen raw materials, surged to a 10-year high last week and is rapidly closing in on the record set in…

July 30, 2021

Here’s who wins and who loses from the surge in commodity prices

Commodities as a whole have risen more than 20% this year, and around 50% in the case of crude oil.

July 28, 2021

Court documents reveal ex-Glencore trader’s political bribes in Nigeria

Former Glencore trader said he was part of a bribery scheme to win oil contracts from Nigeria transferred $300,000 of company funds in 2014 to an intermediary who’d requested the…

July 28, 2021

New technology closer to reaching superhot geothermal energy sources

Progress is being made toward the holy grail of geothermal energy, according to experts gathered at the PIVOT21 Conference.

July 20, 2021

BHP said to mull oil exit in retreat from fossil fuels

BHP wants to exit while it can still get a good price for the assets, aiming to repeat a 2018 sale of its shale business to BP Plc for $10.4…

July 20, 2021

Canada export agency CEO says portfolio will be net zero by 2050

Mairead Lavery, who in 2019 became the first woman to helm EDC in its 75-year history, has made environmental, social and governance investing one of her three priorities.

July 19, 2021

TransAlta hits milestone in its coal phase-out

TransAlta has set a target of reducing greenhouse gases by 60% by 2030.

July 16, 2021

Greenland to abandon all future oil exploration

The decision comes amid increasingly alarming signs of global warming.