Air Products Signs Long-Term Contract to Supply Coal Chemical Industry in Shaan’xi Province, Western China

Air Products has signed a long-term contract with Weihe Clean Energy Company Limited, a subsidiary of Shaan’xi Weihe Coal Chemical Group Ltd, one of China’s largest coal-based fertilizer and methanol producers, to supply onsite gaseous oxygen and nitrogen for its phase three coal-to-chemicals project in Weinan Hi-Tech Zone (WHTZ) in Weinan city, Shaan’xi Province, Western China. Air... 

CONSOL Energy and Synthesis Energy Systems Announce Funding of Front-End Engineering Design Package for West Virginia Coal Gasification Project

CONSOL Energy Inc., the nation’s largest producer of bituminous coal, and Synthesis Energy Systems Inc., a global industrial gasification company, intend to develop through a joint venture their first U.S. coal gasification and liquefaction plant to be located in West Virginia. CONSOL (through its subsidiary Terra Firma Company) and SES have formed Northern Appalachia Fuel LLC (“NAF”),... 

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An end run on ethanol

As President Bush promotes ethanol as a green alternative to gasoline, his administration is quietly relaxing environmental rules for dozens of new corn-to-fuel refineries sprouting up across the nation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to change the way ethanol plants are treated under the Clean Air Act, a move critics say could make it easier for the burgeoning industry to evade... 

EPA Relaxing Environmental Rules for Ethanol Plants

As President Bush promotes ethanol as a green alternative to gasoline, his administration is quietly relaxing environmental rules for dozens of new corn-to-fuel refineries sprouting up across the nation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to change the way ethanol plants are treated under the Clean Air Act, a move critics say could make it easier for the burgeoning industry to evade... 

Canadian Stocks Rise on Oil, Fed Optimism; Suncor Energy Gains

Canadian stocks rose, led by energy producers including Suncor Energy Inc. as oil prices rallied above $77 a barrel this week. The Standard & Poor’s/TSX Composite Index headed for its highest close since May. The market was also lifted by optimism the U.S. Federal Reserve will end two years of interest-rate increases today. “With oil higher and an interest-rate pause the Canadian market... 

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Xstrata, Japan agree steady Australia coal price

Coal miner Xstrata Plc has agreed with major Japanese utilities to keep its Australian thermal coal prices steady this year at about $52.50 a tonne, setting a likely industry benchmark after drawn-out talks. The price for supplies in the Japanese fiscal year to March 2007, coming more than three months after it was meant to have been agreed, will hardly surprise analysts as spot-market Australian coal...