Weekly coal news highlights: 21 – 25 September 2015
A round-up of some of this week’s key news items from the international coal industry, from sales and acquisitions to the latest on coal mining operations.
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A round-up of some of this week’s key news items from the international coal industry, from sales and acquisitions to the latest on coal mining operations.
Capture Power emphasises its commitment to delivering the White Rose Carbon Capture and Storage project, following Drax’s recent announcement to end investment into the project.
Drax plans to stop investing in the White Rose Carbon Capture and Storage project and will withdraw as a partner of Capture Power Ltd.
Paringa Resources, the developer of the Buck Creek No.1 coal mine in Kentucky, expects strong future demand growth for Illinois Basin coal.
Tanzanian-focused coal company, Edenville Energy, has provided an update on the status of its mining licence application.
Prairie Mining shareholders have approved the investment of up to AU$83 million in the company by CD Capital, clearing the way for completion of the transaction.
Atrum Coal NL reports positive progress after identifying various potential new mines at the Groundhog anthracite project, located in British Columbia, Canada.
A round-up of some of this week’s key news items from the international coal industry, from updates on developments, projects and operations to outlooks on coal consumption and production.
SEPCOIII Electric Power Construction Corp. and Firebird Mongolia Fund Ltd complete a joint development agreement for the development and financing of the Tevshiin Gobi power plant project in Mongolia.
BHP Billiton and SaskPower join in a partnership to increase the global development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology by sharing data and information from SaskPower’s Boundary Dam facility.
The SCCS CO2 MultiStore Joint Industry Project provides findings from a study of rocks beneath the UK North Sea, which uncovers benefits of storing carbon dioxide in multiple user storage sites.
BME’s AXXIS digital initiation system, Omnia Subsidiary Advanced Initiating Systems (AIS) successfully blasts 4485 detonators in a northeastern state of Queensland coal mine, Australia.