by Gordon Barratt | Nov 23, 2020 | News
Tata Steel has tested coking coal samples from Russia for making steel through the blast furnace route, its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer T V Narendran said. The development assumes significance in the domestic steel industry as a fruitful result of...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 20, 2020 | News
Natural gas prices rose by 18%, on average, in 2020Q3 as the global economy began to recover, and prices are now above their pre-pandemic levels. In contrast, coal prices have been broadly flat and remain around 20% lower than their January level. The pandemic has...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 10, 2020 | News
China’s coal imports plunged in October to the lowest this year, with supplies from Australia particularly hard hit amid an ongoing political dispute. However, there are other factors at work and while the decline in imports from Australia is a headline-grabber, it’s...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 28, 2020 | News
Colombia’s coal industry is experiencing one of the worst crises in its recent history. The Covid-19 pandemic has compounded problems including labour strikes, criticism of its environmental and human rights standards, and a decline in sales to its traditional...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 17, 2020 | News
“The screen behind shows where Britain is getting its energy from right now,” explained Natasa Dinic from the National Grid in a recent BBC News segment that triumphantly celebrated the UK going cold turkey from coal for two months. “Why would you burn coal?” the BBC...
