Coal

SSAB has joined the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance.

DOE and NETL have announced the award of approximately US$72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies under two funding opportunity announcements.

BHP has signed a firm renewable power purchasing agreement to meet half of its electricity needs across its Queensland coal mines from low emissions sources, including solar and wind.

SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall have recently taken a step toward fossil-free steelmaking with the start-up of HYBRIT’s globally unique pilot plant for the production of fossil-free sponge iron.

On 19 August, the new 275 m stack of the Krasnoyarskaya CHPP-1, completed in 2020, was run for the first time.

Edenville Energy Plc has announced that the company’s subsidiary Edenville International (Tanzania) Ltd has entered into a sales and marketing agreement with MarTek Global FZ-LLC.

Teck Resources Ltd has announced it has signed a non-binding term sheet reflecting an agreement in principle with Westshore Terminals Ltd Partnership on proposed terms for the shipment of steelmaking coal.

NETL researchers have developed a method to custom-formulate low-cost membranes to more effectively separate carbon dioxide from nitrogen in a high volume of flue gas.

Since the opening of the navigation season, the Shakhtersk Coal Seaport, which is part of the Eastern Mining Company, has shipped its 100th coal bulk carrier.

Interior officials have recently visited Deckers Creek, near Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.

A coal mine worker was recently found deceased at the Springvale mine in New South Wales, Australia.

The Solntsevsky coal mine, a key mining asset of the Eastern Mining Company, has introduced a modern high-speed refuelling of mining equipment.

The coronavirus pandemic and persistently low prices of metallurgical coal have made a strong impact on 1H20 results of the JSW Group.

Two US Department of Energy National Laboratories, the National Energy Technology Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, are working with the University of Kentucky and the Pennsylvania State University to further the research and development of coal-derived carbon fibres.

Edenville Energy Plc has provided a short update on operations at its Rukwa Coal Project in southwest Tanzania.