Coal news and updates

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• Mining operations paralysed by strike: Mahanadi Coalfields

  09 Jan 2019

  Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) Tuesday said its effort to overcome production loss of 4.867 mi... . ...Read More

• Indonesia sets lower coal production target to help stabilize global price

  08 Jan 2019

  The government has lowered its coal production target for this year to 480 million tons in an effo... . ...Read More

• Nagaland Bans Illegal Coal Mining

  08 Jan 2019

  The Nagaland Cabinet on Monday decided to ban illegal coal mining in the state and also impose a p... . ...Read More

• CIL boost for wagon firms

  07 Jan 2019

  Private wagon manufacturers are upbeat about demand improving with Coal India Limited (CIL) renewi... . ...Read More

• Newcastle coal price to decline 30% by 2020 – ministry

  07 Jan 2019

  Asia-Pacific benchmark Newcastle coal prices could decline by around 30% by 2020, from 2018 averag... . ...Read More

• 50 MW LNG project in Andaman to be built by NTPC

  04 Jan 2019

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the 50 Mega Watt liquefied natural gas (... . ...Read More

• Coal India supplies 25 mt more coal to power sector

  04 Jan 2019

  Coal India Limited (CIL) on Wednesday said dry fossil fuel supplies increased by 7.6 per cent to 3... . ...Read More

• China Backtracks On Local Coal Ban – Analysis

  12 Dec 2018

  China’s government has restored heat to hundreds of frigid households after an “improp... . ...Read More

• South Africa is exporting 77 million tons of coal – China receives a portion

  12 Dec 2018

  South Africa is exporting 77 million tons of coal to countries in Asia, despite the nation’s... . ...Read More

• JSW to increase coking coal production through acquisitions

  11 Dec 2018

  Polish coking coal producer Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa (JSW) is reportedly looking to increase pro... . ...Read More

• IEA releases annual World Energy Outlook 2018 Report

  14 Nov 2018

  That thermal coal is fated for long-term structural decline and energy-related carbon dioxide emis... . ...Read More

• NTPC to issue tender for procurement of crop residue to run power plants

  05 Nov 2018

  NTPC Ltd will issue bulk tender by mid-November, for procuring up to 18,600 tonne per day of crop ... . ...Read More

• Govt sells 3.18% in Coal India, to get Rs 5,300 crore

  05 Nov 2018

  The government on Thursday sold 3.18% stake in Coal India, in the first big ticket disinvestment o... . ...Read More

• Piyush Goyal sets output target of 2.5 mt per day for Coal India

  05 Nov 2018

  Coal India supplied 22.20 mt more coal to the power sector during April to October this fiscal tha... . ...Read More

• Thermal, steam coal shipments at major ports rises 24% at 51 mt in H1

  01 Nov 2018

  Coal shipments — both thermal/steam and coking coal — handled by the 12 state-run port... . ...Read More