- 1. COAL MARKET REPORT
- (Features)
- ... additional coal capacity to manage that situation.” RWE said lignite, also known as brown coal and considered particularly bad for the environment, “remains a reliable partner to this day.” It adds that ...
- Created on 27 September 2022
- 2. India putting 122 coal mines on auction block
- (Latest)
- The Ministry of Coal in India has reportedly put on commercial auction a collection of 122 coal and lignite mines in the country. According to the Economic Times, Union Minister of Coal, Mines ...
- Created on 07 April 2022
- 3. Poland’s PGE urged to ditch plans for new lignite mine
- (Features)
- ... strategy that continues to support coal, gas and a new lignite mine, delaying the replacement of fossil fuels with renewables. A report, To Embrace a Profitable Energy Future, Poland’s PGE Must Abandon ...
- Created on 12 May 2020
- 4. Oracle signs Thar project MoU
- (Latest)
- ... into definitive agreements in order to reach financial close as soon as possible. Oracle, a UK-based company, intends to develop a combined lignite coal mine and mine mouth power plant located in Block ...
- Created on 23 November 2017
- 5. Oracle submits power plant proposal
- (Latest)
- ... Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB), a proposal to build, own and operate a 660MW private power plant. The UK-based energy company plans to develop a combined lignite coal mine and mine mout ...
- Created on 17 November 2017
- 6. Oracle to sign Pakistan MOU this month
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- Oracle Power expects to sign an MOU covering its combined lignite coal mine and mine mouth power plant in Pakistan later this month. The mine and power plant are proposed for Block VI of the Thar desert ...
- Created on 02 November 2017
- 7. Chinese SOEs express interest in Thar
- (Latest)
- ... parties intend to take a significant majority equity holding in return for arranging debt finance and providing EPC contractors. AIM-listed Oracle intends to develop a combined lignite coal mine and ...
- Created on 28 September 2017
- 8. Bottleneck hampers Mongolian coal movement
- (Latest)
- ... to unload for inspections at the border. According to Reuters, China’s General Administration of Customs said on Wednesday that 2.26 million tonnes of non-lignite Mongolian coal were imported in July, ...
- Created on 24 August 2017
- 9. Mining industry embraces renewables
- (Waste to Energy)
- ... 600Mw of solar nationwide, along with Neyveli Lignite, which tendered for 260Mw of grid-connected solar PV in two states. Hindustan Zinc has announced the solar deployment of 115Mw. It already generates ...
- Created on 10 July 2017
- 10. Average coal price set for Pakistan project
- (Latest)
- The Thar Coal and Energy Board (TCEB) has determined an average price of US$60.23 per tonne of coal for annual production of 4 million tonnes from Oracle Coalfields’ lignite project in the Thar desert ...
- Created on 17 June 2016
- 11. New Chinese deal for Oracle
- (Latest)
- ... The concept is a 4 million tonnes per annum mine providing lignite to a first stage 600MW power plant at its mouth. The coal project contains a JORC-compliant resource of 1.4 billion tonnes. In September ...
- Created on 08 June 2016
- 12. Incentive for Thar coal development
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- Oracle Coalfields, the UK coal developer of a 1.4 billion tonne lignite resource in the Thar Desert in Sindh Province, Pakistan, is confident it will benefit from government fiscal incentives to encourage ...
- Created on 21 March 2016
- 13. Decline takes toll on German manufacturers
- (Asian Intelligence)
- ... discussions about the future of lignite fuelled power stations “is putting pressure on investment levels,” said Dr Michael Schulte Strathaus, who is chairman of the Mining Association in the German Engineering ...
- Created on 20 January 2016
- 14. ‘No objection’ to Pakistan power project
- (Latest)
- ... aims to develop a combined lignite mineral resource and mine mouth power plant in the Thar desert in southeast Sindh Province. The Central Power Purchasing Agency Guarantee Limited (CPPA) has advised ...
- Created on 06 November 2015
- 15. Oracle in Pakistan power agreement
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- AIM-listed Oracle Coalfields PLC, the developer of a combined lignite mineral resource and mine mouth power plant in the Thar desert of southeast Sindh Province, Pakistan, has entered into a consortium ...
- Created on 11 October 2015
- 16. Oracle finalizing EPC for Pakistan project
- (Latest)
- ... is the Thar Coalfield Block VI lignite licence area and mine mouth power plant located in the Sindh Province of southeast Pakistan. Block VI is a 1.4 billion tonnes resource with 529 million tonnes of ...
- Created on 28 September 2015
- 17. Two giant excavators for Neyveli Lignite
- (Supplier News)
- NEYVELI Lignite Corporation (NLC) has inaugurated two state-of-the-art bucket wheel excavators with an operating capacity of up to 6800 cubic metres per hour for the Mines-II Project in Neyveli, India. ...
- Created on 17 August 2015
- 18. Volvo power behind Hongsa plant
- (Around the Region)
- ... be fuelled by lignite and have the capacity to generate more than 1878 MW a day – more than any existing power plants in Laos. The plant will provide electricity across Laos and Thailand. Launched ...
- Created on 23 April 2015
- 19. COAL - Banpu powers up
- (Latest)
- ... Chanin Vongkusolkit will be a director. Somruedee, who has worked at Banpu for three decades, said that this year the company planned to spend $149 million on the Hongsa lignite power plant in Laos, ...
- Created on 09 March 2015
- 20. Unlocking Vietnam’s mining potential
- (Around the Region)
- ... lignite, fat coal and anthracite. There are around 200 coal mines with a total reserve of almost 7 billion tonnes, of which anthracites and semi-anthracite account for about 50%. “Although coal reserves ...
- Created on 31 October 2014