Mongolia said on Thursday that it has reduced the number of shortlisted bidders seeking to develop the prized Tavan Tolgoi coking coal mine to three and that Chinese and Russian groups are still in the running.
Authorities confirmed that an offshore oilfield in Bohai Bay had spilled oil but they have "effectively controlled" the leak.
As many as 100 cities powered by alter-native energy sources, 200 counties that get energy through unconventional means, 1,000 places demonstrating new energy uses and 10,000 towns relying on "green" energy are to exist in China by 2015, said Qian Zhimin, deputy director of the National Energy Administration.
China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the country's largest oil company by output, put its trunk line of China's second West-to-East natural gas pipeline into service on Thursday.
China is going to reveal an energy-saving and environment protection plan very soon. It will apply three market-oriented approaches to ensure products meet the energy-saving requirements, 21st Century Business Herald reported Thursday.
The trunk line of China's second West-East natural gas pipeline project will be ready to start operating at the end of this month, an official with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) said Wednesday.
China's Ministry of Land and Resources will open a second public tender for the sale of shale gas prospecting rights later this year after its first tender sale held on Monday, the Shanghai Securities News said in a Thursday report.
China's second east-west natural gas pipeline went into operation on Thursday.
China issued its first shale gas exploration tender with an offer of four blocks to a group of Chinese energy companies, state media reported, as the country kicks off its search for potentially vast reserves of the resource.
A plan to build an energy industry "golden triangle" in northwest China has been submitted for approval and may be implemented soon, the China Securities Journal quoted an unnamed source as saying Tuesday.
China's benchmark steam coal prices hit 843 yuan ($130.29) per ton last week, up 2 yuan per metric ton week-on-week.
The State Grid is considering investing in power stations in border areas to facilitate power transmission from Russia to China, in collaboration with Russian companies, an industry insider said.