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The Environment Minister said that Portugal hopes to launch a long delayed tender for Lithium prospecting licenses in this year. He also promised to share the benefits with local communities who have been opposed to mining. Portugal, with a reserve of?60,000 tons, is Europe's largest lithium producer. It sells primarily to the ceramics sector and only recently began to look at producing battery-grade lithium. Local communities and environmental groups oppose early projects. Environment Minister Maria Graca Carvalho said the government is "working to have a new mining strategy in place by the summer". This will prioritize "the participation of local...

The Brazilian union Sindipetro-NF (one of the largest in Brazil) has rejected the latest proposal from the state-run oil company to end the 12-day strike. It said this in a Friday statement. Sindipetro NF represents?about 25,000 oil industry workers, including those in Petrobras?offshore oil platform in the Campos Basin, which is the second highest oil production area in Brazil. Petrobras stated in a press release that the strike so far has not had an impact on production as they are using contingency crews to continue operations. Sindipetro-NF is the largest union within FUP, a umbrella organization of oil workers. The...

European shares closed flat on Tuesday as investors remained cautious ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s two-day meeting. EssilorLuxottica also fell after Google announced plans to launch AI powered glasses. The STOXX 600, the pan-European index, closed at 578.11. The regional benchmarks showed mixed results, with Germany's DAX rising 0.5% and France’s CAC-40 falling 0.7%. Google announced that it will launch artificial intelligence-enabled eyewear in 2026, with Warby Parker. Other luxury stocks were also affected by the news, including Kering, LVMH and LVMH Group, which declined 2% and 1.40% respectively. Sector losses were led by the broader luxury index, which...

The Solicitor General's Office announced on Wednesday that Brazil had won a partial win in an international dispute over the Tupi oilfield, against a Petrobras-Shell-Petrogal consortium. This allowed the country to retain tax payments of 22.2 billion Reais ($4.11billion) and keep the money. Arbitration court of the International Chamber of Commerce is mediating the dispute between Brazil's oil regulator ANP and the International Chamber of Commerce over the tax regulations that govern the size of the field. The court's decision is a slight defeat for Brazil. It also determined that compensation can be paid in other forms than cash payments...

Portugal's acting energy minister said that it wants the European energy regulators, ACER, to conduct an independent investigation to determine the cause of the massive power outage which brought Spain and Portugal almost to a standstill in the last month. Maria da Graca Carvalho stated that Prime Minister Luis Montenegro wanted an independent investigation conducted by the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators in order to supplement the technical report prepared by the European Network of Transmission System Operators ENTSO-E. Carvalho, in response to questions, said that "ACER is a suitable entity for coordinating any external evaluation process....

Artificial intelligence bulls are dusting off an old economic theory that dates back 160 years to explain why stocks in the sector may still have more to offer, despite China's new cheap AI model DeepSeek. The tech stocks fell on January 27th after DeepSeek was launched. DeepSeek, which costs a fraction of the rival AI models but requires less sophisticated chips and is cheaper than the other AI models, raised concerns about the West's massive investments in data centres and chipmakers. The biggest one-day decline in market capitalisation of any company in history was caused by the U.S. advanced chips...

Portuguese oil business Galp Energia is examining a confidential grievance about an alleged individual relationship in between President Filipe Silva and a company supervisor, financial website ECO reported on Saturday. Galp's ethics committee is analysing declared disputes of interest due to a close and individual relationship (which had been) kept secret with the female executive who reports to the CEO, ECO said, mentioning unidentified sources. A Galp representative declined to comment. The news website did not determine the female or specify her precise title, saying only she is a remarkable director. Galp's standard procedure needs personal relationships to be interacted...

Portugal's largest energy EDP published on Thursday a strongerthanexpected 14% increase in ninemonth net combined revenue, benefiting from strong rains in Iberia and additional earnings from its Brazilian unit after a complete takeover. EDP????? stole a net 1.08 billion euros ($ 1.17 billion),. beating the typical experts' forecast of 993 million euros in. an LSEG poll, despite smaller sized capital gains. Earnings reported on Wednesday by its subsidiary EDP. Renovaveis, the world's fourth-largest wind energy. manufacturer, fell 53% to 210 million euros. EDP ???? said it scheduled 179 million euros in consolidated. capital gains from the sale of stakes in...

Portuguese energy business Galp is in no rush to make a last investment decision ( FID) to construct a batterygrade lithium refinery in Portugal amidst challenging market conditions, CEO Filipe Silva said on Monday A 50-50 joint endeavor between Galp - which previously on Monday. reported a 22% decline in third-quarter adjusted core earnings - and Swedish battery maker Northvolt, dubbed Aurora and established in November 2021, was formerly anticipated to reveal the FID by completion of 2024. However, the refinery, which was set up to begin business operations in early 2026, is dealing with hold-ups due to the complexity...

Portugal's Galp Energia on Monday posted a 22% fall in thirdquarter adjusted core revenue, struck by lower oil output and a sharp drop in refining margins, but profits still beat estimates for the period. The energy firm reported adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of 820 million euros ($ 885. million), beating the 766 million euros average anticipated by 20. experts surveyed by the business. Galp's share of oil and gas production from tasks in. which it has a stake fell 10% year-on-year to 112,000 barrels of. oil equivalent per day, showing the disposal of its 10% stake....

Saipem will start work on deep water drilling in Namibia for Portugal's Galp Energia, the president of the Italian energy specialist said on Thursday. In early 2024 Galp performed tests at its Mopane-1X and Mopane-2X wells and estimated in April that the Mopane field could hold at least 10 billion barrels of oil following an initially phase of exploration. The find at Mopane appears to be among the largest made in the Orange Basin following effective expedition projects by TotalEnergies and Shell in recent years. The agreement granted by Galp to drill a deep-water well is the very first in...

storyp1> LISBON, Oct 18 (Reuters) The local assembly of Portugal's Azores Islands approved the production of the biggest protected marine location in the North Atlantic to reach international conservation goals well ahead of time. The approval late on Thursday positions the archipelago at the leading edge of global ocean preservation that aims to accomplish the objectives set by the United Nations of safeguarding 30% of the Earth's land and sea by 2030 under a international pact adopted last year. The network will include practically 300,000 square kilometres (115,830 square miles) and ensures the conservation of undersea mountain ranges and susceptible...

AMG Critical Materials, a Dutch lithium miner and supplier, plans to reduce its dependence on China through the processing of?battery grade lithium for electric cars in Brazil, Portugal, and Germany. AMG Development Head Michael Connor stated that the?firm aimed to create a "lithium road" connecting these three countries, allowing the company to bypass China which he said was the only option currently available for processing this material. He said, "Our goal is building this processing capacity both in Brazil and Portugal to establish a Western provider for this expertise. This does not exist yet." EUROPE CAN CATCH-UP WITH CHINA Europe...

Bosch said that thousands of employees are facing production interruptions due to a global shortage of chips caused by a dispute with the manufacturer Nexperia. China and the Netherlands are locked in a fight for control of Nexperia. However, there is hope that the standoff will ease with the Dutch government sending an official delegation to Beijing to try to reach a compromise. Bosch reported that it was experiencing disruptions at three of its sites: Ansbach, Salzgitter and Braga (both in Germany) and Braga (Portugal). It said: "We continue to do everything possible to serve our clients and to avoid...

International Copper Study Group (ICSG), a group of researchers, said that the global refined copper market will be in deficit by 2026. This is due to a slower growth of production. The copper price briefly reached a 16-month high on Wednesday, due to fears about possible shortages caused by a recent series of mine disruptions in Indonesia. Chile and Congo. In a statement released on Wednesday, the ICSG said that these incidents prompted it to lower its forecast of the global mine production growth in 2025 to just 1.4% instead of the 2.3% expected in April. These incidents will reduce...

Savannah Resources, a London-listed company, announced on Monday that it had increased its estimate of the lithium reserves in its project for a mine in northern Portugal by 40 percent after additional prospecting. The company announced that the estimated reserves of Barroso's spodumene deposit -- a mineral rich in lithium -- are now more than 39 millions metric tonnes, up from 28 million metric tones, which were already the largest deposit in Europe. Savannah stated in a press release that "this substantial increase in resources" increases the strategic importance for the project. It said that the company was a "major...

Galp Energia, a Portuguese company, announced on Monday that its second-quarter adjusted core profit was better than expected with a 1% decline. This was due to higher oil production and more profitable trading of gas nearly offsetting falling crude prices and a narrowing refining margin. The company's consensus was for a drop in adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), which dropped to 840 millions euros (977.76 million dollars). Galp's main business is the extraction of crude oil from rich offshore Brazil fields. Its share of oil production and gas from its projects increased by 6% in the...

Two people who were familiar with the incident said that the attack took place over the weekend in the Kayes area. The convoy was transporting heavy equipment from Bamako, the capital of Mali, to Allied Gold Sadiola Mine. The attack highlights the increased security risks and costs that mining companies in Sahel-led states, which are struggling to contain Islamist militants groups, face. Attacks on mining equipment are rarer than attacks on government or military convoys in Mali. Fortuna, a Canadian gold mining company, announced this month that it had recently decided to leave Burkina Faso's neighbor Mali due to increased...

On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged that he had left the country. Washington After talks with President Donald Trump this week, there is little hope that the European Union will avoid U.S. tariffs. Macron said that the Trump administration’s trade strategy, and in particular its understanding of value added taxes, was flawed. The U.S. President announced that his administration will announce a 25% duty on all imports of goods from China two days after Macron's meeting at the White House with Trump. European Union. Trump claimed that the bloc was created in order to "screw up" the United States....

Savannah Resources announced on Friday that it will immediately resume prospecting work at its lithium project located in northern Portugal, after the government assisted it in overturning a precautionary order filed by landowners. Savannah, a London-based company, believes that the Barroso Project's deposit of lithium-bearing spodumene is the largest in Europe. The latest prospecting results indicate a deposit larger than the 28 million metric tonnes of high-grade battery lithium previously estimated. The EU's goal to reduce its dependence on countries like China for strategic raw material could hinge on this project. Savannah was forced to stop prospecting at Barroso in...

The latest expedition outcomes at Savannah Resources' Barroso lithium project in northern Portugal indicate a bigger deposit than the formerly approximated 28 million metric lots of highgrade lithium, the company stated on Wednesday. Savannah, which wishes to build 4 open-pit mines in the area to draw out adequate lithium each year for about half a. million to a million electric lorry batteries, said last month. it would speed up the task to secure the very first commercial. output in 2027. The arise from the surface expedition which our team. carried out are truly exciting, the London-listed business's Chief. Executive Officer...

Savannah Resources is seeking Portuguese federal government approval for the compulsory purchase of land around its Barroso lithium mining project, in a. test of Europe's dedication to enhance its minerals industry. in spite of local opposition. The London-listed company said on Tuesday it would submit. the request for a so-called Statement of Public Utility to the. government. If approved, it would enable the company to. compulsorily purchase land around the job. In the meantime, all efforts to acquire friendly agreements. will continue, it said, adding that worths to be paid for the. land plots have actually been calculated by independent...

Londonlisted Savannah Resources has protected short-lived land access to a big portion of its future lithium mining site in northern Portugal, allowing it to carry out fieldwork and start the second stage of drilling, the company stated on Thursday. But Savannah, which is eager to supply Europe's electrical vehicle (EV) sector with its lithium mine in the Barroso area, is anticipated to continue to deal with opposition from locals and environmentalists in the kind of demonstrations, legal difficulties and refusals to offer land. The company has actually said Barroso's deposit of spodumene, a. lithium-bearing mineral, is the most considerable in...

Portugal's government plans to launch a longdelayed tender of lithium prospecting licenses in 2025 as it seeks to make the country a leading European supplier of critical metals for the green shift, it said on Tuesday. The center-right federal government, which took control of in April, said that the global tender for lithium prospecting will target 6 locations in the north and center of the country. The previous Socialist administration initially prepared an auction in 2018 however concerns about the environmental and social effect of lithium mining have caused numerous delays to the auction. Environment Minister Maria da Graca Carvalho...