Energy, Raw Materials and Mining

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), global energy demand will grow until 2035. The center of global energy demand is shifting decisively to emerging economies – they account for more than 90% of net energy demand.

The natural gas market is increasingly global, with potential price implications.

The growth of future global coal demand is uncertain, particularly due to the stringency of various environmental policies.

Estimates of recoverable petroleum resources continue to increase as technologies allow for the extraction of all types of resources, such as light-tight oil, that were considered unextractable only a few years ago.

Oil consumption in 2035 is expected to be concentrated in only two sectors: transportation and petrochemicals.

The energy sector is a very broad category that covers several industries. It includes all industries involved in the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution.

In particular, the energy sector includes the oil industry, the gas industry, the electric power industry, the coal industry, the nuclear power industry, and the renewable energy industry.

The utilities sector includes companies involved in the sector of extraction, distribution of raw energy, products and services.

Mining is the industry that specializes in the exploration of mineral deposits and the extraction and primary processing of these minerals.

The mining industry is divided into the following main groups: the fuel industry, the mineral extraction industry, the non-metallic minerals and local building materials industry, the mining and chemical materials industry and the hydro minerals industry. These industries are complex with a high degree of regulation and can be very capital intensive.