Verdao Group has listed the largest coal mine methane abatement project with Climate Action Reserve’s Coal Mine Methane Project, which provides an incentive for the voluntary abatement of methane. The project will take place at Consol Energy’s McElroy mine, West Virginia, and use regenerative thermal oxidation technology from Dürr USA to destroy the methane emissions.
Anglo American, one of the world’s largest miners, is partnering with International Alert, a leading peacekeeping NGO that specialises in building sustainable peace in areas affected by violent conflict. The three year partnership aims to promote and implement business practice that will prevent conflict and protect and promote human rights.
Peabody Energy has signed two agreements to develop clean coal in China. The first will see the development of a 2000 MW supercritical power plant substitute natural gas facility; the second, the development of a green coal energy campus including a 1200 MW power plant that will capture CO2 and convert it into green building materials.
The Indonesian Government has announced it intends to ban exports of low-quality coal, starting in 2014. Coal with an energy value of less than 5600 kCal/kg will no longer be exported.
The BP Energy Outlook 2030 is the first of BP’s forward looking analyses to be published after 60 years of producing definitive historical data in the BP Statistical Review of World Energy.
Arch Coal, Inc. announced an agreement with Canadian Crown Corporation Ridley Terminals Inc. to facilitate coal exports to Pacific Rim markets. The five-year agreement will give Arch throughput capacity at the terminal of up to 2 million t of coal for 2011 and up to 2.5 million t of coal for 2012 through 2015.
Peabody Energy Australia has awarded Thiess Pty Ltd a contract to extend mining operations at its Burton coal mine in the Bowen basin, Queensland, Australia. The mine extension will maintain the current production level of 2.5 million tpa of high quality coking coal.
GE and Shenhua have agreed to form an industrial coal gasification joint venture to advance the deployment of cleaner coal technology solutions in China.
Wood Mackenzie’s analysis of the implications of the Queensland floods for the coal industry finds that over half of Australian exports are likely to be affected and the impact of the decrease in exports in this ongoing situation will be felt strongly in global coal markets.
Coal miners across North America are fighting for purchase at export terminals along the continent’s West Coast. Ports and terminals are experiencing a backlog as North American suppliers try to reach the hungry Asian coal market.
Duke Energy and Progress Energy, Inc. announced today that both companies’ boards of directors have unanimously approved a definitive merger agreement to combine the two companies in a stock-for-stock transaction. The combined company, to be called Duke Energy, will be the country’s largest utility.
Arch Coal, Inc. today announced that it has acquired a 38% interest in Millennium Bulk Terminals-Longview, the owner of a bulk commodity terminal in exchange for US$ 25 million plus additional consideration upon the completion of certain project milestones.
January 2011: Kay Sever examines the importance of a great culture between operations and maintenance cannot be over-emphasised because it affects production, cost and morale.
A new technology that could help release some of the currently unusable energy in an estimated 2 billion t of US coal waste has been successfully demonstrated by a Department of Energy (DOE) supported project. The hyperbaric centrifuge technology is aimed at separating the fine coal particles from water, allowing their recovery for energy, and marks a step forward in clean coal separation.
IHS Global Insight analyses the impact of the Queensland floods on the region’s coal production and resulting impact on coal prices.