Drilling & production - 24 January 2011

Kyushu Electric Power Co. has agreed to buy 0.3 million tpy of LNG from the Gorgon LNG project commencing in 2015.

Riversdale Mining has surprised the coal industry by planning longer-term price negotiations with its customers for coking and thermal coals.

Coal of Africa Ltd has announced that it has lodged a new order mining right application with the Department of Mineral Resources in the Limpopo Province of South Africa for its Makhado coking coal project.

Praxair Electronics has won three new supply contracts with solar customers in China.