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• Lower demand pulls down coal imports though Kakinada Port

  18 Mar 2014

  March 18: Lower demand and policy decisions have pulled down coal imports through Kakinada Port, a... . ...Read More

• MCL gets Green nod for Bhubaneswari project expansion

  18 Mar 2014

  March 18: Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL), recently re... . ...Read More

• Coal handling at Ennore Port falls 16.87% in Feb m-o-m

  18 Mar 2014

  March 18: Coal handling at Ennore Port stood at 1,789,000 tons during February 2014, down 16.87% f... . ...Read More

• Gypsum imports via Cochin Port at 617 tons in February

  18 Mar 2014

  March 18: Coal handling at V.O. Chidambaranar Port stood at 572,000 tons during of February 2014, ... . ...Read More

• Pet coke exports via Chennai Port at mere 1 ton in Feb

  18 Mar 2014

  March 18: There were no pet coke exports through Chennai Port in February while in January these w... . ...Read More

• This critical coal event is back on

  18 Mar 2014

  There's an eerie silence in the coal market right now. Trading sources like Platts are repo... . ...Read More

• The economic impacts of future coal production in West Virginia

  18 Mar 2014

  Last month colleagues and I published a paper in the journal Environmental Research Letters, focus... . ...Read More

• Some Sumatran thermal coal mines close amid low prices: Sources

  18 Mar 2014

  A few lower grade thermal coal mines in Sumatra have reportedly shut down as miners have been unab... . ...Read More

• New coal limits welcomed in East Kalimantan

  18 Mar 2014

  The State-Owned Enterprises Ministry has issued a regulation that requires all mining companies to... . ...Read More

• Coal seam gas expansion would push up prices, says thinktank

  18 Mar 2014

  Coal seam gas mining will not bring down the gas price in Australia according to a report which al... . ...Read More

• Coal seam gas benefits exagerated

  18 Mar 2014

  Early last year, I wrote an article, “Fracking the countryside”, questioning the merit... . ...Read More

• Coal-fired power stations the big winner

  18 Mar 2014

  Owning their own gas reserves is helping to offset difficult operating conditions for Australia... . ...Read More

• James River coal misses debt payment

  18 Mar 2014

  James River Coal Co., an unprofitable U.S. producer of the fuel, missed an interest payment as it ... . ...Read More

• Utah’s oldest coal mine aims to expand into an uncertain future

  18 Mar 2014

  After two years of "supplemental" study, the U.S. Forest Service has issued a new enviro... . ...Read More

• Philippines to launch 5th petroleum, coal licensing round Apr 25

  18 Mar 2014

  The Philippines' Department of Energy said Monday it plans to launch the country's fifth p... . ...Read More