The push for mass coal exports from Washington state, already facing a huge environmental battle, also could get hit with slowing Chinese demand for coal shipments. ...

Mongolian Petroleum Authority chairman G Ulziiburen announced in mid-March that Mongolia had made an agreement with PetroChina - a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corporation - to exchange crude oil drilled in Mongolia with end-products processed in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. ...

PetroChina Co., China's largest natural-gas producer, confirmed Tuesday that it withdrew a bid for an Australian coal-bed methane gas producer but said it would continue to invest in other Australia projects because of their commercial value and importance for energy security. ...

China National Petroleum Corp., the country's largest oil and gas producer, promoted a vice president known for his focus on natural gas to the role of president, reflecting the rising importance of the cleaner-burning fuel in China's energy mix. ...

Forty miners have died in two separate coal mine explosions in south-western China, authorities said. ...

President Xi Jinping's state visit to Russia in late March brought advances that could end nine years of tough talks between China and its northern neighbor over natural gas transmission. ...

China is an environmental mess. Smog in Beijing is so bad it’s literally broken the air-quality index. In Shanghai, it’s at times turned the city into a scene from Blade Runner. (It almost matches the infamous Cleveland smog of the 1970s.) Meanwhile, thousands of dead pigs—cause of death not yet known—have been floating down a river that cuts through Shanghai and provides part of the region’s drinking water ...

China’s drama in Myanmar continues to unfold. Almost daily, local news media run reports charging the Middle Kingdom of numerous abuses as it seeks to fervishly complete the controversial China-Myanmar oil and gas pipelines. ...

China is an oil-devouring behemoth that is almost entirely dependent on other countries for its energy needs. Also, China is fortunate enough to have massive amounts of shale gas reserves — natural gas that is trapped in sedimentary rock. Sounds like an easy solution, right? ...

A new report by the Climate Commission of Australia, has admitted that whilst China remains the world’s largest polluting nation, it also leads the fight against climate change. ...