Map of Batang in Java, IndonesiaSources: Adaro Energy, J-Power, Itochu Corp (EnergyAsia, July 5 2012, Thursday) — Greenpeace activists staged a march through Jakarta city yesterday in protest against plans by a consortium to build Southeast Asia’s largest coal-fired power plant in the coastal district of Batang on north central Java. Stopping at the Maritime (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 5 2012, Thursday) — Singapore-based Good Coal Pte Ltd has been awarded an exclusive technology licensing agreement to develop, deploy and market a proprietary clean coal technology in Southeast Asia. US-based Clean Coal Technologies Inc which owns a 45% stake in Good Coal said the newly established company will promote its Pristine-M technology. (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 5 2012, Thursday) — NYSE-listed InterOil Corp said it is separating the roles of chairman and chief executive and added two members to its board including a former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. The company, which is focused on developing oil and gas projects in Papua New Guinea, said Rabbie Namaliu, who (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 4 2012, Wednesday) — Canada’s Erdene Resource Development Corp said it has agreed to separate its domestic and Mongolian mineral and coal assets into two companies. Erdene will sell off its 25% interest in the Donkin coal project in Cape Breton in Canada’s Nova Scotia province to another Canadian firm, Advanced Primary Minerals (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 4 2012, Wednesday) — Aspire Mining Limited said it and rail giant JSC Russian Railways (RZD) are discussing the possibility of extending the Trans-Mongolian Railway across northern Mongolia that would help deliver coking coal from the Australian firm’s Ovoot mine. The discussion is provided for under a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 4 2012, Wednesday) — Brent crude rebounded above US$100 a barrel July 3 for the first time since June 11 on worries that oil supplies could be affected by the growing tensions between Iran and the West, strike action by Norwegian oil workers, and possible work disruption in the Gulf of Mexico with (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 4 2012, Wednesday) — China’s energy use and production growth are showing signs of slowing down. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the country’s electricity production grew by just 4.7% to just under 3,900 billion watt-hours in the first five months of the year, with thermal power output rising by just 4.1%. (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 3 2012, Tuesday) — Following on the Queensland state government’s announced support for the expansion of two major coal mining areas, Australia’s QR National said it is evaluating a joint proposal for an integrated rail proposal after awarding a A$76-million contract for a new loop section to the Wiggin Island project. (US$1=A$0.97). Australia’s (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 3 2012, Tuesday) — Japanese trading house Sojitz Corporation said it has agreed to pay RMB30 million for a 10% stake in Inner Mongolia Zhongmeng Coal Co Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China’s Inner Mongolia Erdos Group, which is involved in Mongolia’s resource business. (US$1=RMB6.36). As Japan’s third largest coal trader, Sojitz, which (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 3 2012, Tuesday) — Australia mining giant BHP Billiton said it will invest US$845 million to expand its Appin metallurgical coking coal mine, south-west of Sydney, to replace production from its nearby West Cliff mine. The company expects the new 3.5-million-tonne site to be operational in 2016 in time to maintain its production (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 2 2012, Monday) — Australia’s resources and energy commodity export earnings are forecast to reach a record A$209 billion in the financial year ending June 30 2013, said the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE). The agency did not give an estimate for the country’s export earnings for the last financial year (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 2 2012, Monday) — Australia’s International Coal (ICX) said it has concluded a farm-in and joint venture agreement with Queensland Coal Investments Pty Ltd (QCI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd (HPPL), with respect to various tenements in the Maryborough basin. Located in a well-known and highly prospective hard coking (more…)