Coal news updates

Jindal Steel & Power has announced its financial results for third quarter and 9 months FY20 – 21.

Buffalo Coal Corp. has confirmed the appointment of Rory Taylor as Independent Non-Executive Board member and Audit Committee Chairman.

DRA Global has won its second major contract on Bravus Mining & Resources’ Carmichael Project, delivering the AUS$140 million coal preparation plant, where the coal is processed and prepared for transport.

NTPC group achieved over 1 billion units of daily generation on 18th January 2021, recording the company’s highest ever single day generation.

A new report from Fact.MR forecasts that demand for coal handling systems are to remain high from thermal power plants through 2030.

The Global CCS Institute has welcomed 34 new members to its ranks in the last 12 months.

Tlou Energy has provided an update regarding the 100 MW tender in Botswana.

The Solntsevsky coal mine, the key mining asset of the Eastern Mining Co., for the first time reached a coal production volume of 11 million t at the end of 2020.

Edenville Energy Plc, an AIM quoted company operating the Rukwa Coal Project in southwest Tanzania, has provided a corporate update.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the establishment of a Division of Minerals Sustainability to bring an increased focus to securing a US critical minerals supply chain that will transform the US energy and manufacturing systems.

The Energy Information Administration expects production of all fossil fuels – crude oil, coal, dry natural gas, and natural gas plant liquids – to increase in 2022, but forecast fossil fuel production will remain lower than the 2019 peak.

Aggregate fossil fuel demand is set to peak in 2027 – with oil peaking in 2029 and gas in 2037 – partially due to the impacts of COVID-19, according to new research by McKinsey & Co.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s latest inventory of electric generators, 9.1 GW of electric generating capacity is scheduled to retire in 2021.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has secured an order for a steam and power plant from National Aluminium Company Ltd.

Reynolds Soil Technologies has developed a range of services to treat and rehabilitate tailings dams.

NTPC Ltd’s first unit, commissioned 38 years ago at Singrauli in Uttar Pradesh, has achieved the highest plant load factor in India between April 2020 to December 2020, data published by Central Electricity Authority showed.

JERA Co. Inc., through its subsidiary Hitachinaka Generation Co. Inc., has begun commercial operation at the Hitachinaka Joint Thermal Power Station Unit 1.

A NETL-supported project at West Virginia University to extract economically and strategically important rare earth elements from Appalachian coal resources has reached new milestones.

Coal India Ltd (CIL), underpinning for a cleaner environment in coal transportation, has placed increased impetus on rail evacuation and will gradually migrate away from the road movement of the dry fuel.

Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) has announced that its B&W Environmental segment will design and supply advanced ash-handling equipment to a US power plant customer.

Hargreaves Services plc has announced the sale of its entire inventory of specialty coal to its German joint venture, Hargreaves Raw Material Services GmbH.

World Coal Association member Yancoal, the operator of Premier Coal, has opened Lake Kepwari, near Collie in Western Australia, 50 years after opencast mining operations started at the site.

The coal seaport of Shakhtersk, a key logistics asset of the Eastern Mining Co., shipped a record 10.7 million t of coal in 2020, which is 21% more than the same period in 2019.

CONSOL Energy Inc. and CONSOL Coal Resources LP have stockholder and limited partner approval and completion of the previously announced merger.