As President Xi Jinping calls for greater environmental protection, officials are eager to demolish badly-planned dams. But the country will need vast amounts of clean hydroelectric power to meet its Continue Reading
The world’s largest oil importer, China, is estimated to have drawn some crude from its oil reserves in July, although its refining throughput fell to the lowest level in over Continue Reading
The rising Covid-19 case count in China has begun disrupting crude oil trade as it shutters some of the world’s busiest ports. Bloomberg reported earlier this week that the Ningbo-Zhoushan Continue Reading
The partial closure of the world’s third-busiest container port is worsening congestion at other major Chinese ports, as ships divert away from Ningbo amid uncertainty over how long virus control Continue Reading
The first big test of Joe Biden’s lofty clean-power ambitions may not be sweeping climate legislation that needs congressional approval, but managing a solar supply chain that’s being shaken by Continue Reading
China exported a total 29.09 million mt of gasoline, gasoil and jet fuel in January-July, leaving just 7.54 million mt of export quota available for the rest of the year Continue Reading
The United States reported more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, equating to around 42 fatalities an hour, according to a Reuters tally, as the Delta variant continues to ravage Continue Reading
As apocalyptic wildfires raged in Greece, California and Turkey last week, the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) offered a sobering assessment of the damage inflicted Continue Reading
New refining capacity in Q4 could help throughput to rebound China’s crude throughput in July took a breather after hitting record highs in the previous month, with analysts saying high Continue Reading
China’s oil refining slumped to the lowest level in 14-months as private processors scaled back operations amid a crackdown by authorities. Daily crude processing fell below 14 million barrels a Continue Reading
