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• Delhi puts coal block plan on backburner

  09 Oct 2015

  Months after it announced plans of getting a coal block allocated to set up a pithead plant in ano... . ...Read More

• Coal stocks at DTEK warehouses 39% up in a month

  08 Oct 2015

  Coal stocks at the warehouses of DTEK thermal power plants (TPP) from August 4 to September 4 incr... . ...Read More

• Will US Utilities Flock to Restock Coal Inventories?

  08 Oct 2015

  Coal inventories In its September 28 report, the EIA (U.S. Energy Information Administration) pu... . ...Read More

• How Will the Rebound in Crude Oil Prices Impact US Coal?

  08 Oct 2015

  Crude oil prices WTI (West Texas Intermediate) crude oil prices increased again during the week ... . ...Read More

• US Coal under Pressure as Natural Gas Prices Remain Subdued

  08 Oct 2015

  Natural gas prices Natural gas prices in the spot market dropped again to $2.56 per MMBtu (milli... . ...Read More

• Powder River Basin Coal Prices Rise, Others Remain Steady

  08 Oct 2015

  Powder River Basin coal For the week ended September 25, Powder River Basin (or PRB) spot coal p... . ...Read More

• Price of CSX front-month contract drops to almost nine-year low

  08 Oct 2015

  The depressed Central Appalachian rail (CSX) front-month contract traded three times Tuesday in th... . ...Read More

• China coastal coal freight rates fall for 51 days

  08 Oct 2015

  Freight rates for vessels shipping coal from northern China to the south witnessed a 51st day-on-d... . ...Read More

• China NDRC releases monthly power coal price indices

  08 Oct 2015

  China has released the first monthly national and regional price indices for thermal coal used for... . ...Read More

• Petcoke prices fall further on high supply, falling freight

  08 Oct 2015

  Delivered prices of imported fuel grade petroleum coke fell another $4/mt on the week on persisten... . ...Read More

• NTPC may sell power to Bangladesh from upcoming Assam plant

  08 Oct 2015

  State-run NTPC will consider selling electricity to Bangladesh from its upcoming 750 MW plant at K... . ...Read More

• Coal India: production high but valuations low as stake sale looms

  08 Oct 2015

  This year, so far, has been evidently better for Coal India Ltd (CIL) as far as production and off... . ...Read More

• Coal India finds few takers for coal in special e-auction

  08 Oct 2015

  The coal ministry’s special e-auction scheme for 2015 had few bidders as companies found tha... . ...Read More

• Singareni coal production rises 27% in 6-month period

  08 Oct 2015

  The Singareni Collieries Company Limited(SCCL) has achieved 27.46 per cent growth in coal producti... . ...Read More

• Coal with increased ash content, panel gives go ahead for imports

  08 Oct 2015

  The union environment ministry’s expert appraisal committee (EAC) has recommended doubling t... . ...Read More