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News on Energy & Resources in China

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Friends in high places

China’s most mysterious oil baron is striking some stunning deals
Sep 22, 2017 (WiC 381)

The prices of commodities tend to be more volatile than those of other major asset classes. Moreover, institutional investors have to put up with a variety of market players that are huge but often relatively inscrutable. Take Glencore. The ...

China steps up shale gas industry’s development
Sep 15, 2017 (WiC 380)

It has a long way to go before it rivals the US, but China is starting to ramp up its shale gas production after a number of false starts. Last month, the government executed its first public auction of a shale gas block with proven reserves ...

Citic threatens to shut its Australian iron ore mine over legal rows
Sep 15, 2017 (WiC 380)

Citic Group owns Australia’s largest magnetite mine, producing the kind of higher-grade ores (62% Fe and above), which Chinese steel producers increasingly need to meet the government’s tougher environmental standards. Indeed, the lower ...

A divine power rises

China’s energy sector set for a shake-up after Shenhua-Guodian move
Sep 8, 2017 (WiC 379)

In the 1990s the coalmining industry was one of the least compelling sectors in China. The bargaining power of its miners was so weak that they had to prepay the transportation costs of many of their customers. Some even resorted to building ...

Steely approach

Sha Steel to take over debt-ridden state rival
Jul 21, 2017 (WiC 375)

The timing could hardly have been worse. Just days before it was due to begin trade and investment talks with the US as part of the two countries’ newly-formed Comprehensive Economic Dialogue, Beijing announced record steel production occurred ...

Back to rare earth

Why a California mine has put Trump’s China policy to the test
Jul 7, 2017 (WiC 373)

“The Middle East has oil, while China has rare earth.” We first cited that Deng Xiaoping quote in April 2009, and we suspect that for many readers at the time the significance of these metallic elements – essential for the manufacture of ...

Chinese bid for Australian coal asset challenged by rival Glencore offer
Jun 23, 2017 (WiC 371)

The commodities giant Glencore has been described in many ways in its time, not least as clandestine, controversial and filthy rich. But one identifier that Glencore’s boss Ivan Glasenberg won’t have heard before is a comparison to a sixth ...

India counts on Chinese demand for Carmichael mine
May 5, 2017 (WiC 364)

What could stand in the way of a $20 billion Indian-owned coal mine in Australia? The answer is China’s domestic coal policies. In the third quarter of last year coal prices began to rally. Australian miners – some of whose mines were ...

Hunting in the Hunter Valley

Yanzhou Coal seals landmark deal for Rio Tinto’s Australian coal assets
May 5, 2017 (WiC 364)

When Yanzhou Coal put together its bid for Rio Tinto’s Australian coal assets in 2016, it code-named the project “Monkey King” in honour of the hero of China’s classic novel Journey to the West. It was an apt title for a deal struck just ...

Does miner Shenhua’s special dividend signal next wave of SOE reform?
Mar 31, 2017 (WiC 360)

China’s capital city has just closed its last coal-fired power station, a plant that burned 1.76 million tonnes of coal a year, according to Xinhua. Critics of Beijing’s smog say that power generation is simply being moved to nearby areas, ...

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