Oil Price In her State of the Union address this week, EC President Ursula von der Leyen made a point about the EU’s growing independence in sectors such as energy, chips, and raw materials. The official stressed the importance of these raw materials for energy, after which she went on to slam China for unfair market practices. Was she
Oil Price Looming shortages of critical metals enabling the energy transition could slow the uptake of renewables and low-carbon solutions, McKinsey & Company warns. Supply of nickel, copper, lithium, cobalt, tin, iridium, and rare-earth element dysprosium faces shortages this decade, which would raise metals prices, supply chain pricing, and the price of finished products such as EV batteries or solar panels,
Oil Price Brazilian-controlled oil company Petrobras has high hopes for increasing its refining capacity and its Curacao pre-salt discovery, company officials said on Friday. In a Friday webcast for investors, Petrobras director of industrial processes and products William Franca said that the company has the potential to increase its refining capacity by as much as a half a million barrels
Oil Price Tesla this week broke ground on a lithium refinery in Texas in the company’s latest move aimed at ensuring a sufficient supply of critical materials for the manufacturing of its cars. It is also part of a plan to expand Tesla’s presence across the EV supply chain, Reuters noted in a report on the news. The refinery should be
Oil Price (WO) – Kimbell Royalty Partners, an owner of oil and gas mineral and royalty interests in approximately 16 million gross acres in 28 states, has agreed to acquire mineral and royalty interests from MB Minerals, L.P., a subsidiary of Sabalo Holdings, LLC, in a cash and unit transaction valued at approximately $143.1 million. The purchase price for the
Oil Price With the success of the energy transition closely tied to the ability to store solar and wind power, battery manufacturers are zeroing in on Latin America’s so-called lithium triangle of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. These three countries alone contain 52m, or 53%, of the 98m tonnes of global lithium reserves, according to the US Geological Survey. In late
Nasdaq MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Saturday signed a decree handing over responsibility for lithium reserves to the energy ministry, after nationalizing lithium deposits last April. During an event in Sonora, Lopez Obrador signed the decree that orders the energy ministry “to take the actions necessary to carry out” the nationalization process. It also declares 234,855 hectares
Oil Price Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) has signed an agreement with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, to set up a joint company that will invest in mining assets abroad to secure strategic minerals. Under the joint venture agreement, Ma’aden will own 51% of the new company, while the Public Investment Fund (PIF) will own the
Oil Price Iran’s exports of crude oil, condensates, and petrochemical products hit their highest level in the Iranian month of November since 2018, when the U.S. reimposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic’s oil industry, Petroleum Minister Javad Owji said. “Iran’s oil industry is currently at the forefront of the economic war and the highest sanctions have been imposed on the industry,”
CNBC China is leading the way when it comes to lithium — and the rest of the world has not been quick enough to respond to its dominance, according to the CEO of American Lithium. Speaking to CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” Monday, Simon Clarke discussed how China had secured its position of strength within the industry. “I just think the
Oil Price The pace of the energy transition could be slowed by a looming shortage of copper, analysts and top copper producers say. “There is going to be a very significant shortage in copper,” Richard Adkerson, chairman and CEO at U.S. copper producer Freeport-McMoRan, the world’s largest listed copper miner, told the Financial Times. The decarbonization drive will increase the
Reuters In a February meeting with mining executives, President Joe Biden laid out an aggressive goal for the United States to produce more of its own minerals for the electric vehicle revolution in ways that respected the environment. A “big part” of those efforts, the president said, was Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s plan to filter lithium from superhot geothermal brines
