A unit of Chinese refiner Sinopec has won mining rights to develop a coal mine in the Inner Mongolia region of the country for 30.15 billion yuan ($4.36 billion), a company representative said on Friday.
Indonesia will allow miners Freeport Indonesia and Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara to continue exporting copper concentrate until next year, despite a ban starting this June, to allow for their smelters to be completed, the mining minister said on Friday.
Freed from the most onerous of their COVID restrictions, China's tourists are set to boost the country's gasoline and jet fuel consumption next month as travellers for the May Day holiday take to the skies and hit the road.
Last June, Mexico's oil regulator unanimously rejected a plan presented by state energy company Pemex to develop its biggest discovery in three decades, arguing the proposal was both economically and technically unsound.
Sudan's military leaders and a coalition of civilian parties signed a framework deal on Monday that could launch a new political transition in the country.