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Showing posts with label Indonesian thermal coal. Show all posts
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Monday, October 31, 2011

Victory West Metals acquiring Indonesian coal concessions

Monday, 31 Oct 2011

Victory West Metals has provided an update on its agreement with South East Asia Energy Resources Pte Ltd to acquire nine coking and thermal coal concessions in Indonesia.

The company announced on September 9 that it had signed a Heads of Agreement to acquire 100% of SEAE which is a special purpose company registered in Singapore that has the rights to an 85% interest in the BEK Coal Project in East Kalimantan.

Victory West has reported that SEAE has reached an understanding with United Mining Group to supply Indonesian thermal coal to Vietnam National Coal Mineral Industries Group once those parties have negotiated and entered into binding agreements.

State owned Vinacomin is responsible for sourcing energy supply for several state owned coal fired power plants in Vietnam. Vinacomin operates the Tan Rai Bauxite Project and has entered into a non binding Memorandum of Understanding with United Mining Group. SEAE is part of the United Mining Group.

The non binding MOU is fully transferrable to SEAE Resources and provides all such coal supply and off take rights to SEAE Resources, starting in the second quarter of 2012 and onwards. An initial supply order of 50,000 tons per month has been agreed with the supply demand expected to reach 250,000 tons per month once the Tan Rai project is operating at full capacity.

The initial contract term is three years and the price is the full market indexed price for export thermal coal.

SEAE anticipates entering into binding agreements with Vinacomin upon completion of mining planning and production scheduling to meet SEAE Resources production allocated capabilities.

The proposed acquisition of SEAE is subject to specified conditions including legal and technical due diligence, shareholder approval and Australian regulatory approvals.

(sourced from ProActiveInvestors)

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Indonesia becomes second largest coking coal exporter

Augt03. 2011

Indonesia, the largest thermal coal exporter in the world now becomes second biggest coking coal exporter to Japan. Indonesian’s coking coal exports to Japan claimed 14.40 percent in June compared to May's exports.

Indonesia has exported 742,215 tones of coking coal to Japan in June 2011, up 14.40 percent from previous month. The exported coking coal price was at US$ 144.83/tonne, slightly below from May's export price of US$ 152.65/tonne, according to data released by Ministry of Finance of Japan.

According to ministry’s data, Indonesia is the second biggest exporter of coking coal to Japan followed by Canada in June 2011. Australia the largest coking coal exporter in the world has shipped the biggest quantity of coking coal to Japan, which has exported 3.14 million tones in the June 2011, up 13.6 percent from the previous month.

The average price of Australian’s coking coal sold at US$ 280.51/tonne, up US$ 31.33 compared to May's price of US$ 249.18/ton.

Canada was the third largest coking coal exporter, which has shipped 732,338 tones slightly lesser than Indonesian export in June. The Canadian coking coal was sold at US$ 304.35/ton in June, up US$ 58.87 compared to May's price of US$ 245.48/ton.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Indonesia's coal upgrading rule to apply when technology available

Tue Mar 29, 2011 5:35am GMT

JAKARTA, March 29 (Reuters) - Indonesia is likely to delay a regulation requiring miners to upgrade their low-quality coal, until the technology is commercially available, said a senior mining official said on Tuesday.

Coal producers in the world's top exporter of thermal coal had urged the government to delay the rule as they said it could dampen interest in mining investments.

The energy and minerals ministry has been drafting a regulation that would by 2014 require coal producers to upgrade low-quality coal to a medium-quality coal before exporting. The coal would need a minimum heating value of 5,600 kcal/kg on a air-dried basis.

"There are some pilot projects but so far there is no proven upgrading technology," said Bambang Setiawan, director general of minerals and coal at the energy and minerals ministry.

"We can't tell them to upgrade if there's no technology available. We will see if the technology will be available in the next 3-4 years," said Setiawan.

The planned regulation was part of a mining and coal law introduced in 2009 that requires miners to process coal and minerals into higher value products before exporting them, as the country seeks to boost revenue from the mining sector.

The Indonesian Coal Mining Association has said Indonesia's mineable reserves of low-quality coal may reach 10 billion tonnes, or half of current total reserves of around 21 million tonnes, within the next 2-3 years, as more firms are expected to start producing coal with a heating value of 3,000-3,400 kcal/kg.

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