Homeland Energy Group Provides Operations Update for Kendal Colliery & Exploration Projects in South Africa
Homeland Energy Group Ltd. provide an update on the status of its Kendal Colliery following a planned shut-down for plant improvements and on its key exploration projects in South Africa. “While the first year of any operation is filled with a certain amount of excitement, it is also the year in which the operations team makes adjustments and improvements to ensure the operations run according...
Sasol and Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Contract Engineering Companies to Advance 80 000b/d CTL Study
The Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group and its partner Sasol, today signed a contract with Foster Wheeler International Corporation and Wuhuan Engineering Company to carry out the Feasibility Study for an 80 000 bbl/d coal to liquids (CTL) plant at the Ningdong Chemicals Base in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China. The Ningdong base is already well advanced with a number of operating plants...
Mechel OAO Announces the Commissioning of Its New Mining and Processing Plant at the Voskhod Chrome Ore Deposit
Today, the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, and the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, officially opened Mechel’s mining and processing plant at the Voskhod chrome ore deposit in the Aktyubinsk Region, Kazakhstan. The official opening ceremony took place during the exhibition held as part of a Forum for the leaders of the border regions of Russia...
Mechel Announces the Installation of New Equipment at Its Southern Urals Nickel Plant OAO Subsidiary
Mechel OAO, one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces that it has upgraded the machine tool equipment base at its Southern Urals Nickel Plant OAO subsidiary. A new large lathe RT-117-5, valued at approximately RUR6.0 million ($240.0 thousand), has been installed in the Casting and Mechanical Workshop of Southern Urals Nickel Plant OAO. Among other tasks, the universal lathe...
Mechel Announces the Commissioning of a New Long Wall Face at Its Olzherasskaya-Novaya Mine
Mechel OAO, one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces that a new long wall face has been commissioned at the Olzherasskaya-Novaya Mine, at its Southern Kuzbass OAO coal mining subsidiary. New high productive long wall face No. 21-1-3 in seam 21 has been commissioned at the Olzherasskaya-Novaya Mine. Mechel invested approximately $100.0 million (RUR2.5 billion) in the mine’s...
White Energy’s Successful Production of Upgraded Coal at Cessnock Plant
White Energy Company Limited confirmed that it has successfully produced upgraded coal at its binderless coal briquetting plant at Cessnock, New South Wales. Having completed construction eight weeks ago, key elements of the commissioning phase are now finalised with all relevant certifications for running the Plant being received at the end of last week. At the beginning of this week, the drying furnace...
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”),...
Victoria seeks brown coal opportunities with China
Brown coal, a low grade of coal, has been ignored in China because it’s not easily exploited. But, Victoria state in southwestern Australia, has been seeking brown coal opportunities with China and solving environmental problems by its mining and utilization. “It’s actually quite significant for China to exploit brown coal because its energy needs have grown, and Victoria has realized...
Activists dump coal to oppose approval of dirty Iloilo power plant
Greenpeace activists dumped 200 kilos of coal at the entrance of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Thursday and unfurled a banner with the message ”Atienza, don’t be a climate criminal.” The activists are demanding that Secretary Lito Atienza immediately reject all plans to construct a dangerous coal-fired power plant in Iloilo City. Instead of actual coal,...
BHP invests $975 million in South Africa coal project
Global mining giant BHP Billiton(BHP.AX)(BLT.L) said it plans to invest $975 million to upgrade and expand its thermal coal mines in South Africa to sustain coal exports amid soaring coal prices. BHP approved an investment plan to develop new coal reserves across its Douglas and Middleburg collieries in South Africa and build a coal processing plant with a capacity of 14 million tonnes a year, Melbourne-based...
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