Tag: Raw materials
Towards an authorization for seabed mining?
The council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) opens this Monday, October 31, in Kingston, Jamaica. This meeting will be very important, as it could open the door to seabed…
in defense of producers, Ivory Coast and Ghana boycott a summit in Brussels
There will be no Ivorian and Ghanaian officials this Wednesday, October 26 in Brussels for the opening of the meeting of the partners of the World Cocoa Foundation. Accra and…
Nigeria is only Africa’s second largest oil producer
Nigeria has lost its position as Africa’s leading oil producer to Angola. Authorities are struggling to deal with oil theft along pipelines, a phenomenon that seems increasingly out of control.…
Europeans pave way for ‘unprecedented’ emergency measures
European energy ministers said they were in favor this Friday, September 9, of a series of emergency measures to stem the rise in gas and electricity bills, even mentioning a…
European states forced to spend billions to deal with the energy crisis
Price caps and freezes, business aid, energy imports… the list of bills is growing to tackle the energy crisis. This is the case in Germany where the government announced this…
Global food prices continue to fall, FAO says
World food prices continue to fall for the fifth consecutive month: the FAO Food Price Index, which tracks the change in international prices of a basket of basic commodities, is…
Japan does not want to give up Russian gas
Japan welcomes Russia’s decision to allow two Japanese trading houses to retain their shares in the Sakhalin-2 gas and oil project in Russia’s Far East. Tokyo has been involved in…
Invictus Energy set to explore gas field in northern Zimbabwe
Australian oil and gas company Invictus Energy has announced plans to start gas exploration in northern Zimbabwe as early as September. If proven, this would be Zimbabwe’s first gas production…
The port of Rouen, an emergency breadbasket in the face of the crisis
Our summer series dedicated to the ports of the world takes us to Rouen, in the north-west of France. The leading grain port in Western Europe, it is carried despite…
Meeting at the summit, OPEC + must decide on a possible increase in production
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and their ten partners in the OPEC+ agreement, including Russia, are meeting this Wednesday, August 3 in Vienna. The issue is whether or…