International companies have been asked to bid for a tender to extract coal in parts of Kitui and Mwingi districts.
The Ministry of Energy asked interested firms to bid for the last phase of the exploration in the Mui basin as part of efforts to determine the commercial viability of the reserves. This comes in the [...]

Century Aluminum Company and Noranda Aluminum Holding Corporation announced today that Larry Holley has been named president and general manager of Gramercy Alumina, LLC and St. Ann Bauxite Limited, effective May 8, 2008.
“We are delighted with Larry’s appointment,” said Century’s chief operating officer Wayne R. Hale. “His technical background, mining experience and energy expertise make [...]

India says it is contemplating a new coal distribution policy that would be based on the requirements of regulated and non-regulated sectors to give a boost to small- and medium-sized industries.
The Coal Ministry said the new policy would be put in place within a month of its approval. The ministry set up an expert [...]

DURANT — Senator Jay Paul Gumm, and the Citizens Organizing for Resources and Environment, spoke out against the construction of the coal-fired power plant that TXU purposes to build in Fannin County. Experts in several scientific and health fields spoke to approximately 60 people in the Fine Arts Building at Southeastern Oklahoma State University [...]

Thanks to the high prices of oil and natural gas, the electricity industry is turning back to coal, America’s oldest and most abundant fossil fuel, to drive a new generation of power plants. The upshot is that even as politicians take the threat of global warming more seriously, the problem may get much worse.
Utilities are [...]

An Israeli company has discovered a small amount of oil at a drilling site near the Dead Sea, raising hopes that the Jewish state could one day join its regional neighbors as a petroleum producer.
Initial tests have found that the site would yield between 100 to 150 barrels daily, said Eli [...]

THE government is expected to give its approval to the country’s first ever coal policy very soon. The final draft of the coal policy will be placed before the Cabinet shortly. Once endorsed, the coal policy will give certain basic rights to the government to lease out the existing coal mines of the country, including [...]