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Coal - 21 July 2010

Continental Coal signs off-take agreement with EDF Trading

Continental Coal Ltd and EDF Trading have signed an off-take and funding agreement for all export quality thermal coal produced from Continental’s Project X, Vaalbank and Vlakvarkfontein mines for a 20 year period.

 
 

New IGCC plant will capture 90% of CO2 with Siemens technology

Siemens has been awarded the FEED contract to supply coal gasification and power block technology for the Texas Clean Energy Project, a polygeneration IGCC project that will use coal as its feedstock. The project, which will have a carbon capture rate of 90%, received US$ 350 million under the US Department of Energy’s Clean Coal Power Initiative – Round 3.