GE Energy announced today that it has signed a 15-year service agreement with South African oil and gas company Sasol. Under the agreement, GE Energy will provide around-the-clock monitoring and diagnostics of Sasol’s new power plant in Secunda, which could help ease South Africa’s energy crisis.
South Africa, which has Africa’s largest economy, is in the [...]
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 [...]
Brazil’s government is considering ending a state monopoly on uranium mining, Dilma Rousseff, the chief of staff of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is quoted as saying in the O Globo newspaper Thursday.
Private companies have already shown interest to explore Brazilian uranium deposits, among the mining giant Cia. Vale do Rio Doce (RIO), or [...]
Bulgaria’s regulatory authorities have cleared ArcelorMittal subsidiary Mittal Steel Holdings AG to buy a number of Russia-based coal mining assets from Severstal (RTS: CHMF), the regulator said in a statement.
ArcelorMittal said on January 31 that it was buying a number of coal mining assets in [...]
The biggest German power company, EON, plans to sell its high-voltage network in anticipation of new European Union rules, press reports said on Thursday.
Plans to split off distribution networks worth more than one billion euros (1.5 billion dollars) were “well advanced” and EON chief executive Wulf Bernotat had already informed German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the [...]
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), the energy giant of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), signed on Sunday a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a Japanese bank to set up a comprehensive partnership in the oil and gas sector.
The document between ADNOC and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) was signed in the presence [...]
Chesapeake Energy Corp. is dropping its support for a series of controversial “Coal is Filthy†advertisements in Texas.
Tom Price, a Chesapeake Energy vice president, said today, “The reason that we’re dropping the support is, it (the advertising campaign) was intended to further the discussion about our nation’s energy supply and whether clean coal at this [...]
Texas, as everyone knows, does everything big. Its giant oil and gas fields dominate America’s energy patch. It is now the nation’s largest wind power producer, with more than 2,000 turbines gathering some of the country’s strongest currents. It gets the booby prize for being the biggest producer of greenhouse gases.
And now Texas faces [...]
HOUSTON – Texas, as everyone knows, does everything big. Its giant oil and gas fields dominate America’s energy patch. It is now the nation’s largest wind producer, with more than 2,000 turbines gathering some of the country’s strongest currents. It gets the booby prize for being the biggest producer of greenhouse gases.
And now [...]
The battle lines have been clearly drawn between the Democrats in Congress, a handful of major names in the international mining industry and the National Mining Association and its coal company members.
The Democrats’ victory in last year’s elections means Congress’s stance on environmental issues has changed dramatically. Gone is the champion of mining and big [...]
