Handysize tanker freight rates on the Cross-Mediterranean voyage, basis 30,000 mt, have hit their lowest in five years on Monday on the lack of cargoes and ample tonnage, shipping sources said Tuesday. According to Platts data, freight ...
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South Africa exported 5.93 million mt of thermal coal in September, slipping 15.1% year on year due to lower shipments to India, Europe, Turkey, Pakistan and the US, according to customs data released late Friday. The volume was, however, ...
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ERP Compliant Fuels hopes to sell its first train of Central Appalachian coal with attached carbon credits this month, a company official said Monday. Tom Clarke of the Virginia Conservation Legacy Fund, ERP's nonprofit parent, said ...
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* Stocks climb at EMO Dry Bulk Terminal and OBA Bulk Amsterdam * Low Rhine river levels impact barging from ARA ports Four delivery terminals in Northwest Europe's Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp trading hub had combined coal stocks of ...
Coal exports from terminals in Virginia's Hampton Roads region totaled 1.93 million st in October, down 1.9% from September and down 29.1% on the year, according to figures released Tuesday by the Virginia Maritime Association. While the ...
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German power contracts for Monday delivery lost ground during Friday trading, yet remained buoyant on low renewables forecasts and reduced availability of coal-fired units. At Platts' 1100 GMT close, baseload power for Monday delivery was ...
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Areva and China National Nuclear Corp, or CNNC, signed a memorandum of understanding in Beijing Monday involving the "possible" acquisition of a minority stake by CNNC in the French nuclear company's capital, Areva said in a statement. ...
The 849 MW FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Scriba, New York, will be shut permanently by late 2016 or early 2017, due to "the continued deteriorating economics of the facility," Entergy said Monday in a statement. The unit is licensed to ...
Draft EU rules on allocating forward electricity capacity have received a key approval from an EU committee of national government officials, formal EU power grid operators' body Entso-e said late Monday. "Clear rules on long-term trading ...
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Duke Energy Indiana has deferred into 2016 some coal contracted for delivery this year as it seeks to cut down on a stockpile that at one point approached 5 million st or 80 days of supply, a company official said in a filing to the state's ...
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Xcel Energy is confident it can cut carbon emissions by 60% by 2030 from 2005 levels at a negligible cost to customers, mainly by building two new natural gas plants, adding more than 2,000 MW of renewables and keeping its nuclear plants ...
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The November bidweek national average price tumbled 32 cents to average $2.06/MMBtu as points outside of the Northeast moved lower, Inside FERC's Gas Market Report said Monday. The November bidweek price at the benchmark Henry Hub dropped ...
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The Indonesian government has invited bids for three shale gas blocks -- Blora, onshore Central and East Java; Batu Ampar in East Kalimantan; and Central Bangkanai, onshore Central and East Kalimantan -- according to a statement on the ...
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Shell is to operate a standalone integrated gas division from the start of 2016 -- given the business's increasing importance to the overall group -- in a move that will also help Shell to integrate BG Group which it agreed to buy in April ...
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The three-member Texas Railroad Commission on Tuesday accepted the findings of the commission staff that two oil and gas wastewater disposal wells were not the likely cause of a series of earthquakes that shook parts of North Texas in late ...
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