Coal

Oracle Coalfields has extended its Engineering, Procurement and Construction framework agreement with Chinese firm SEPCO.

Wood Mackenzie: Gas to challenge coal in the Asian power generation mix.

Wood Mackenzie: Nearly 17% of US coal production uneconomic at current market pricing.

Churchill pushes on with US$2 billion Indonesia mine fight despite office blaze.

SBI to turn down Adani's US$1 billion Australian loan request.

A round-up on the stories that have attracted the World Coal team’s attention this week.

Chinese and U.S. companies dominate the list of the top 100 corporate portfolios of coal-fired power plants.

India is aiming to produce 700 million t of coal in the next fiscal year.

Buffalo Coal Corporation has announced that it has commenced with implementation of the restructuring of its operational and cost structures.

Australia's Whitehaven Coal has lined up an AUS$1.4 billion bank loan.

Thermal seaborne coal prices are likely to drop further through 2016 as lower oil prices and weak local currencies lower the price floor and demand remains low.

BHP Billiton said it has suspended its Blackwater coal operations in Australia after a worker at the mine was killed in a truck accident.

Cyber-attack a real and evolving threat, declares Lords Science and Technology Committee.

NWR output is to fall and level off at around 7 million t annually in coming years as it stabilises after a major debt and equity restructuring.

Coal production eased 8% in January to 36 million t compared with 39 million t during the same period last year.