Trade

Oil & Gas Trade

Aramco Floats to Become the World’s Most Valuable Company

Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco, officially became the world’s most valuable company yesterday, after its floating on Riyadh’s stock exc…

Oil & Gas Trade

OPEC+ Oil Supply Cuts Won’t Prevent Surplus in 2020

Global oil markets still face a surplus next year even if OPEC and its partners deliver newly-announced production cuts in full, the International Energy Agency…

Electricity Trade

Rwanda Welcomes Vital New $123m Substation

A new high voltage 188 MVA substation and its related transmission network has been inaugurated in the Rwanda capital Kigali.

Oil & Gas Trade

Saudi Aramco Oil Firm Starts Trading after Record £19.5bn IPO

Saudi Arabia’s oil company Aramco has started trading on the Saudi Tadawul stock exchange for the first time after a 25.6 billion dollar (£19.5 billion) initi…

Coal Trade

Bearish US Thermal Coal Export Market Driven by Unsupportive Pricing

Exports of Illinois Basin coal from the US Gulf Coast and Northern Appalachian coal exports through Baltimore have both slowed considerably from levels seen thi…

Coal Trade

Japan to Keep Pushing Coal in Developing World Despite Criticism

Japan will continue providing backing to new coal-fired power projects in developing countries, a government source said Monday, despite international efforts t…

Oil Price

Oil Prices Up with Positive US, China Trade Talks

Crude oil prices were up early Tuesday supported by a top U.S. official's comments on positive trade talks between the U.S. and China on Monday.The trade talks …

Oil & Gas Trade

China Is Winning the Offshore Oil Competition

Hydrocarbon-hungry China is tearing it up on the offshore oil and gas scene, and its rapidly growing global footprint is helped along because it’s not unconcer…

EU and Africa Signed A $120m Deal to Fund Sustainable Energy Projects

The European Investment Bank and the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) have signed a deal to fund sustainable energy projects over t…

Coal Mine

Albanese says Australia Should Continue to Export Coal

Labor leader Anthony Albanese has backed the case for Australian coal exports amid a divisive debate on shutting down the trade to act on climate change, arguin…

Hydrogen + Fuel Cells Europe

Europe’s largest hydrogen and fuel cells exhibition 2020Hydrogen + Fuel Cells EUROPE is part of HANNOVER MESSE· World’s leading trade fair for industrial tec…

Coal Trade

China's Jan-Nov Coal Imports Rise 10% on Year to 299 Mil mt; Exceed 2018 Total

China imported 299.3 million mt of coal, including thermal and coking coal, over January-November, up 10.2% year on year, exceeding its 2018 full year import vo…

Oil & Gas Trade

Demand Slowdown in Top Gas Buyer Set to Worsen

A slowdown in gas demand growth in China, the driver of global use over the past two years, is expected to slacken further, adding to investor concern as supply…

Reversal of U.S. Bifacial Solar Tariff Exemption Will Bite, But Growth Expected to Continue

The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) in early October abruptly and unexpectedly reversed its decision to exempt bifacial solar modules from global import tariff…

Gas power plant

Vietnam Trade Ministry : $4-billion Power Plant Can't Commit to Its Proposed Electricity Price

The trade ministry supports inclusion of a 3,200 MW liquefied natural gas-fired power plant in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu as part of the national pow…