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• RIL hikes Sept loading pet coke prices by Rs 300/ton

  05 Sep 2013

  September 5: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), India's largest petroleum coke maker, has increase... . ...Read More

• Pet coke prices seen soft on lack of demand

  05 Sep 2013

  September 5: Cement makers in India expect the domestic as well as imported price of petroleum cok... . ...Read More

• Coal minister reviews coal scam files availability

  05 Sep 2013

  September 5: Union Coal Minister Shriprakash Jaiswal on September 5 held a detailed review of the ... . ...Read More

• CIL signs FSAs with 16 private power projects

  05 Sep 2013

  In a major relief to the fuel-starved power sector, state-run monopoly supplier Coal India Limited... . ...Read More

• Indian coal buyers seek deferrals as rupee slump raises costs

  05 Sep 2013

  Coal buyers in India, the world’s third-largest user, are negotiating to defer imports from ... . ...Read More

• New power capacity might hit logistics hump

  05 Sep 2013

  The new 78,000-Mw capacity, to come on stream by March 2015, will require an additional 308 mt, ta... . ...Read More

• Indian captive coal, iron-ore mining hit by fresh uncertainties

  05 Sep 2013

  India’s questionable mining industry policy framework has been dealt a double whammy of unce... . ...Read More

• CBI to probe supply of coal to pvt firms at discount

  05 Sep 2013

  Widening the ambit of its probe in the coal scam, the CBI is now investigating violations of proce... . ...Read More

• Odisha seeks alternate coal block for OTPCL

  05 Sep 2013

  Tentuloi block has enough coal reserve at 1,234 mn tonne, but being underground block, coal extrac... . ...Read More

• Singareni coal not critical for NNTPS

  05 Sep 2013

  The ‘coal linkage’ from Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) to Dr. Narla Tatar... . ...Read More

• Prospects brighten as BHP opens new coal mine

  05 Sep 2013

  BHP Billiton's struggling Queensland coal sector will not face another royalty hike, after sta... . ...Read More

• China Commodities Weekly: Coal Price Continues Falling

  05 Sep 2013

  Coal   The spot price for 5,500kcal coal dropped by 5 yuan to 550 yuan/ton in Qinhuangdao... . ...Read More

• The new normal: US coal-fire power plants close, coal mines idle

  05 Sep 2013

  Coal-fired power plants and coal mines are going down across the U.S., according to SNL Financial ... . ...Read More

• Europe goes cold on coal

  05 Sep 2013

  European Union coal demand is on course for a decades-long slide from a peak last winter as the gr... . ...Read More

• Coal to Gas Fuel Switching in the UK: The Role of Carbon Pricing

  05 Sep 2013

  The most under observed recent trend in European energy is the return of coal and the dire state m... . ...Read More