After 12 years at the top of the rankings, ExxonMobil has been dethroned as the world’s top energy company, with Russia’s Gazprom now leading the way

By pouring investment into international infrastructure projects, China hopes to expand its historic trade route. However, such ambitious plans have left the Asian superpower stranded amid unprofitable ventures

Rio Tinto has ended the fierce bidding war surrounding its Australian coal assets by agreeing a deal worth $2.69bn with Yancoal

As the world slowly attempts to wean itself off near-exhausted oil supplies, the passage to the new energy future will prove arduous for Earth’s largest producer of the commodity

US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement seems like a disaster, but it may be the spur American investors and businesses need to climate-proof their operations and portfolios

The Indian conglomerate announced it is set to go ahead with the controversial coal mine despite opposition from environmental activists and a lack of funding

OPEC members and other oil producers have reached a deal to prolong production cuts for a further nine months

The future of solar power is here, and the MENA region is primed to welcome this expanding global industry as its primary source of renewable energy

Oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil hopes to resume its joint venture with Russia’s Rosneft after US sanctions shelved the project in 2014

Toshiba’s projected losses for 2017 could more than double as the company’s ruinous nuclear unit files for bankruptcy

Work will resume for miners at Escondida, the world’s largest copper mine, after drawn-out talks with BHP Billiton ended inconclusively

Azerbaijan has withdrawn from international transparency watchdog EITI, prompting fears over the country’s economic stability

Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to sell the majority of its Canadian oil sands assets in a bid to curtail falling profits and counteract struggling oil prices

In the company’s latest push to provide a seamless supply of green energy to electricity grids, Tesla has unveiled a new power plant on the island of Kauai

Foreign investment is commonplace within the energy sector, but governments must consider how it may impact energy security down the line