WITH a 15 to 19 hour load shedding schedule underway, massive hikes in prices of firewood and acute shortages on gas, some Zimbabweans have resorted to burning plastic to cook meals.Barely a week ago,...
ZIMBABWE plans to conduct a full exploration of its gas deposits in a bid to establish the quantum of the key resource before engaging potential investors. Top United States firm, General Electric and...
A SOUTH African mining firm Tumagole Consortium says it is committed to investing R55 billion into the Coal-Bed Methane mining project in Lupane. Tumagole Consortium officials, who were led by South A...
THE demand for liquefied petroleum (LP) gas has increased by more than 100 percent in Bulawayo, putting pressure on suppliers who import the product mainly from South Africa. Distributors and househol...
The coal claims feud pitting Zambezi Gas and Makomo Resources has taken a new twist, amid reports that there may have been an "error" in the former's special grant.Zambezi Gas says its special grant g...
Zambezi Gas and Coal Mine has implored Government to expeditiously resolve a dispute in which it is accusing Makomo Resources of encroaching into 11 200 hectares of its Hwange-based concession.One of ...
Zambezi Gas, a coal miner in Hwange, has doubled production to 100 000 tonnes per month since it started operating nearly two years ago, the visiting Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Ene...
Rural communities in Mashonaland East are adopting a simple technology to produce clean, alternative and easily accessible renewable energy from biomass.Under the project, rural communities in Mudzi a...
A LEADING Chinese gas manufacturer, Chingases Company Limited, plans to set up a $15 million plant in Bulawayo under the Special Economic Zones (SEZs).The company, which is presently operating in Zamb...
ZAMBEZI Gas, a coal mining firm in Hwange, is breathing fire over its loss of 11 720 hectares of land allegedly to Makomo Resources under unclear circumstances.Owned by locals, some of whom have opera...
TONGAAT Hulett, Zimbabwe's largest sugar producer, has commissioned a 40-tonne liquefied petroleum gas plant in Chiredzi that will provide renewable and clean energy to more than 5 000 workers of the ...
One of the three firms granted a coal-bed methane concession by Government in Lupane, Matabeleland North Province, Discovery Investments, has said it required about $700 million to start commercial ga...
The Zimbabwe Regulatory Authority (Zera) says there has been a rapid growth in liquefied gas petroleum gas (LPG) usage in the country as its use became popular as an alternative energy source especia...
COAL mining firm, Zambezi Gas Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd, has been dragged to court by NR Barber (Pvt) Ltd over a $3,885 million debt for services rendered at Ithuba Mine in Hwange, a few years ago.Through it...
Government has extended Shangani Energy Exploration and Zambezi methane gas exploitation. The special grant for Shangani Energy was extended by three years to 2020, while that of Zambezi Gas was exte...
Southern Africa is most likely sitting on massive natural gas reserves of more than 600 trillion cubic feet which the region must exploit to reduce a heavy reliance on biomass energy, a top South Afri...
Anglo American Plc, Rio Tinto Plc and BHP Billiton Plc underpinned the advance in the Storks Euro 600 Index as miners also propelled the MSCI All Country World Index toward a ninth month of gains. HSB...
Energy and Power Development minister Samuel Undenge yesterday urged all urban municipalities to adopt and develop biogas projects.Speaking during a tour of the Mbare biogas project, Undenge said the ...
ZAMBEZI Gas has increased coal output to 40 000 tonnes per month compared to 10 000 tonnes the colliery was producing when it started full-scale production last year.The Matabeleland North-based compa...
Police in Zimbabwe have fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse dozens of opposition supporters protesting what they say are plans to rig next year's presidential election.The main opposition MDC...
MINES and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa yesterday said the extraction of coal-bed methane gas in Lupane has begun, describing the development as "historic".Addressing delegates to the o...
SABLE Chemicals, Zimbabwe's sole producer of ammonium nitrate fertiliser, has taken coal samples from Sengwa in Gokwe to China to test the feasibility of processing the mineral for hydrogen.Gasified c...
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has moved in to regulate trade and distribution of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).Government today announced that liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) retailer...
MINING Oil and Gas Services, a South Africa-based company intends to construct a multi-billion fuel pipeline, linking Beira and three southern African countries through Zimbabwe, industry sources sai...
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) said on Sunday Zimbabweans must shift to use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as the power supply situation remains unstable.With Zimbabwe facing a pere...