Drilling & production

ExxonMobil’s energy outlook shows rising global energy demand, shift toward natural gas and energy efficiency gains.

Charles T. Drevna, president of NPRA issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s State of the Union address.

Peabody Energy believes the world is in the early stages of a long-term supercycle for coal driven by increasing energy use in China, India and other emerging markets, global growth in steel consumption and a lack of alternative supplies with the cost and scale required.

The American Petroleum Institute has responded to Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address: ‘The President cant do more to create jobs’.

The board of Riversdale Mining Ltd, including the representative from Tata Steel Ltd (TSL), has unanimously recommended that Riversdale shareholders accept the offer by Rio Tinto to purchase all Riversdale shares for $16.00 cash/share.

WestSide Corp. Ltd, the operator of the Meridian SeamGas CSG gas fields in the Bowen basin, Queensland, Australia, has advised that drilling of a pilot production well commenced on 22 January 2011. The well will be drilled to a depth of 550 m.

Thiess has been awarded a major coal seam gas upstream infrastructure contract in the Surat basin, Queensland, Australia.

Dr Stephen Mills, IEA Clean Coal Centre, UK, discusses clean coal technology developments in India.

Mitsubishi has reached a final investment decision and will now build the Donggi-Senoro LNG project in Indonesia.

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.

Verdao Group has listed the largest coal mine methane abatement project with Climate Action Reserve’s Coal Mine Methane Project, which provides an incentive for the voluntary abatement of methane. The project will take place at Consol Energy’s McElroy mine, West Virginia, and use regenerative thermal oxidation technology from Dürr USA to destroy the methane emissions.

Anglo American, one of the world’s largest miners, is partnering with International Alert, a leading peacekeeping NGO that specialises in building sustainable peace in areas affected by violent conflict. The three year partnership aims to promote and implement business practice that will prevent conflict and protect and promote human rights.