China aims to cut energy intensity by over 3.9% this year, as it continues its drive to increase energy efficiency and cut emissions, according to a government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang Wednesday at the annual session of ...
Tags: Energy Use, energy intensity
China plans to raise citygate prices of natural gas consumed by non-residential users later this year, the National Development and Reform Commission said in its work report issued Wednesday at the start of the annual session of the ...
Tags: Natural Gas, on-grid tariff
In the January-February period of the current year, coal production in Russia went up by 2.8 percent year on year to 56.81 million mt, including 28.09 million mt of coal produced in February, according to Russia's Central Dispatching ...
Tags: Coal Production, Mineral
In the January-February period of this year, total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and timber - increased by 0.3 percent year on year, according to the ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal, Russian Railways
Diversified miner trader Glencore Xstrata said Tuesday it sold 33.2 million mt of iron ore in 2013, a 68% annual rise in volumes, as it proceeds with studies for projects in Africa to gain marketing clout. As a relatively new entrant to ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Glencore Xstrata
According to a report by international credit rating agency Moody's, iron ore operations will support the profitability of vertically integrated CIS-based steelmakers, despite growing price risks on slowing demand from China and a supply ...
Tags: Steelmakers, Mineral
Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (Alpha), one of the nation's largest coal companies, Alpha Appalachian Holdings (formerly Massey Energy), and 66 subsidiaries have agreed to spend an estimated $200 million to install and operate wastewater ...
Tags: Coal, Certification, EPA
Turkey's thermal coal imports in January rose to the highest in three months, gaining 36.2% on the year to 2.080 million mt with Colombian volumes displacing Russian imports as the country's main supplier of the fuel, according to data from ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Mineral
The heavy industrial sector is a core domain that opens up huge and ample scope of technological inputs and advancements. Each day the sector is being overwhelmed by a consistent influx of high technological improvement and the industries ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Bengal Tools, industrial sector
Solar Power Systems can be a good alternative to the energy derived from limited fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. More than 85 percent of the energy consumed around the world comes from these resources and if these resources ...
US coal production totaled about 18.8 million st in the week that ended Saturday, the Energy Information Administration said Thursday. This production estimate, based on railcar loadings, is 1.9% lower than the previous week's estimate ...
Tags: Coal Production, Mineral
The net volume of gas imported into the UK outstripped domestic production in 2013 for the first time ever, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said Thursday. "Imports of gas again exceeded UK production, and in 2013 for the first ...
Tags: Gas Imports, Domestic Output
U.S. rail intermodal traffic increased 6.4% in the week ended Feb. 22 compared with the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads reported. Railroads moved 253,358 intermodal trailers and containers that week, AAR said ...
Tags: Intermodal Rail, Transportation, Railroads
Brazil-based miner Vale has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2013, reporting a net loss of $6.45 billion, compared to a net loss of $2.61 billion in the same quarter of the previous year, as a ...
Russian coal mining company Kuzbassrazrezugol has announced that a new dressing plant to handle 3 million metric tons of coal per year will be constructed at the Kaltansky opencast coal mine. The new Kaltanskaya-Energeticheskaya dressing ...
Tags: coal mining, Mineral