Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK), Russia's largest coal producing corporation, has announced that it produced 96.5 million mt of coal in 2013, up one percent year on year. In 2013, SUEK's sales volume rose by one percent year on year ...
China's first direct coal-to-oil project, operated by the country's leading coal producer, Shenhua Group, produced 866,000 tonnes of oil products last year. The direct coal liquefaction line is located in Ejin Horo Banner, Ordos City in ...
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It may risk becoming an overused term but equipment obsolescence is a very real problem facing an increasing number of operators. Many of whom are reliant upon a mature electrical infrastructure often sweated well beyond the intended and ...
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According to a report from the Lake Carriers’ Association, shipments of coal on the Great Lakes totaled 24.6 million tons in 2013, a decrease of 2.8 percent compared to 2012. Some of the decrease can be attributed to the early onset ...
Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced its operational results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2013. Accordingly, Severstal's crude steel production in the fourth quarter decreased by seven percent to 3.78 million mt, while its ...
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Central Europe-based miner New World Resources Plc (NWR) has announced that it has reached agreements with its customers for coking coal sales for the first quarter of 2014. Accordingly, NWR has set the average agreed price of coking coal ...
Tags: Coking Coal Prices, Mineral
Russian pig iron and coking coal producer KOKS Group has announced it operational results for 2013. During 2013, KOKS produced 2.09 million mt of pig iron, down one percent compared to the previous year. In the given period, the company's ...
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China's unconventional natural gas output was 112 billion cubic meters in 2013, up only 0.34 percent year-on-year, a record low in five years, Sublime China Information Group Co Ltd said on Tuesday. Although the government has put great ...
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Markets for use of natural gas as a transportation fuel and to power industrial equipment are poised to take off in the next few years, the head of Encana said in Houston on Tuesday. "We at Encana believe that natural gas creates an ...
Tags: Natural Gas, transportation fuel
Grid operators have met their match and it's a growing number of distributed generators—erstwhile electricity consumers who've ended their reliance on the grid because their needs are met by rooftop solar panels. But this exodus from ...
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Union Pacific Corp. said it had the best fourth-quarter and full-year results in company history as volume grew for the first time in six quarters. The freight railroad reported a net income of $1.2 billion, or $2.55 per share in the ...
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Global steelmaking and mining giant Evraz Group S.A. has announced that its crude steel output amounted to 3.989 million mt in the fourth quarter of 2013, up 0.7 percent quarter on quarter. In the fourth quarter last year, the crude steel ...
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Europe's largest coking coal producer Poland-based Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa SA (JSW) has announced that in 2013 it sold 14.35 million mt of coal, constituting its largest annual volume of coal sales in over 10 years. During last year, ...
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China is expected to exceed Europe to become the largest energy importer in the world by 2035, said a report issued by British oil giant BP. The annual Energy Outlook 2035 report released on Wednesday forecast global energy consumption to ...
Tags: Oil Consumer, Energy Importer
Germany's economy and energy minister laid out Tuesday proposals to curb renewable energy subsidies and cap electricity prices but opponents fear they could jeopardise the country's much vaunted green energy transition. Just weeks after ...
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