Talks between Australian miners and Japanese steelmakers over coking coal supplies have stalled as the Japanese companies are pushing to move to more flexible arrangements from the current quarterly fixed-price terms. The Japanese are backed by BHP, the world's biggest producer of coking...

The world's biggest planned coal mine is once again lurching toward the finish line as India's Adani Enterprises moves ahead with a final decision on its Carmichael project in Australia. Even if Adani does approve the $4 billion thermal coal and rail project in central Queensland state,...

South Korea will halt operations at eight of the country's older coal-fired power plants for a month in June as part of measures to tackle air pollution, the energy ministry said on Tuesday. New President Moon Jae-in earlier this month announced plans to temporarily shut operations at 10...

Rio Tinto will secure up to $US600 million ($804m) above the value of its Hunter Valley coal assets in its $US2.45 billion Coal and Allied sale to Yancoal Australia, even without including a ­potential $US650m royalty, according to independent expert Ernst & Young. In the lead-up to...

MAY 23, 2017 by: Andrew Ward, Energy Editor Piyush Goyal picks up his smartphone, opens an app and declares the precise number of villages in India without reliable access to electricity: 4,061. When he became Indian minister for power in 2014, he says, the number was over 18,000. Mr Goyal is...

Singapore (Platts)--22 May 2017 442 am EDT/842 GMT Several Indonesian thermal coal producers are shifting their focus to the lucrative domestic space amid rising consumption, while seaborne trading appears to be losing steam at the traditionally strong export markets. During a recently...

The Government of India with an aim to reducing dependence on imported coal and auctioning long-term coal linkages to power companies recently approved a long-awaited coal linkage policy, which provided a breather to the thermal power sector. As coal availability is not adequate in India and...

India’s first producer of natural gas from coal seams in the country’s oldest mining region will spend about $1 billion to look for some of the newest forms of energy. Great Eastern Energy Corp. will invest as much as 20 billion rupees ($312 million) over the next four to...

U.S. energy company DTE Energy Co said on Tuesday it will build more natural gas and renewable power plants and shut all of its coal units by 2040, reducing carbon emissions by more than 80 percent from 2005 levels by 2050. “We have concluded that not only is the 80 percent reduction goal...

By Fergus Jensen May 14 Indonesia, the world's top thermal coal exporter, could increase production of the fuel used in power stations by 5 percent in 2017 and 2018, the country's leading coal industry association said on Sunday. Indonesia's coal industry has benefited from higher...