[Charbon] L'ascension du charbon

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Le gouvernement Chilien donne le feu vert pour un projet charbonnier qui permettra de couvrir 30% de la demande en charbon du Chili.

Projet à 530 millions de $ (pour plusieurs mines).

Chile approves controversial massive coal mining project

Aug 25, 2011

When Isla Riesco comes fully online, it is expected that the complex will supply 30 percent of Chile’s demand for coal, El Mercurio newspaper reported.

A Chilean high-level government commission has given final approval to the first of five mines, Mina Invierno, at Isla Riesco in the extreme south of Chile.

The US$530 million Isla Riesco Island project is underwritten by the Copec and Ultramar companies, which intend eventually to construct five mines and a port.

When Isla Riesco comes fully online, it is expected that the complex will supply 30 percent of Chile’s demand for coal, El Mercurio newspaper reported.

Environmentalists are aghast, as they are concerned that the massive mining project will negatively affect the local environment, while burning the relatively low-quality coal from the Isla Riesco Island complex will tie Chile to 25 years of “dirty energy” production at a time of growing concern about global warming.

According to commission chair, Minister of the Environment María Ignacia Benítez, the Superintendent of the Environment will be monitoring Isla Riesco’s development to ensure that the company complies with the country’s environmental regulations.

http://www.indiainfoline.com/Markets/Ne ... 5229052598

[Raminagrobis]

Le gouvernement Chilien donne le feu vert pour un projet charbonnier qui permettra de couvrir 30% de la demande en charbon du Chili.

Projet à 530 millions de $ (pour plusieurs mines).

Chile approves controversial massive coal mining project

Aug 25, 2011

When Isla Riesco comes fully online, it is expected that the complex will supply 30 percent of Chile’s demand for coal, El Mercurio newspaper reported.

A Chilean high-level government commission has given final approval to the first of five mines, Mina Invierno, at Isla Riesco in the extreme south of Chile.

The US$530 million Isla Riesco Island project is underwritten by the Copec and Ultramar companies, which intend eventually to construct five mines and a port.

When Isla Riesco comes fully online, it is expected that the complex will supply 30 percent of Chile’s demand for coal, El Mercurio newspaper reported.

Environmentalists are aghast, as they are concerned that the massive mining project will negatively affect the local environment, while burning the relatively low-quality coal from the Isla Riesco Island complex will tie Chile to 25 years of “dirty energy” production at a time of growing concern about global warming.

According to commission chair, Minister of the Environment María Ignacia Benítez, the Superintendent of the Environment will be monitoring Isla Riesco’s development to ensure that the company complies with the country’s environmental regulations.

http://www.indiainfoline.com/Markets/Ne ... 5229052598

C'est là : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesco_Island

Toute à la pointe sud du chili, dans les glaces... Ce sera donc le gisement de charbon le plus méridionnal exploité dans le monde (le plus septentrional, c'est en norvège, également sur une ile, le svalbald)

[GillesH38]

Toute à la pointe sud du chili, dans les glaces... Ce sera donc le gisement de charbon le plus méridionnal exploité dans le monde (le plus septentrional, c'est en norvège, également sur une ile, le svalbald)

SvalbaRd(archipel , comprenant la célèbre île du Spitzberg).

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La production de la mine géante de Tavan Tolgoi en Mongolie ca démarrer début decembre.
Objectif de production de 3 millions de tonnes fin 2012.

Puis montée en volume espérée à 15 millions de tonnes par an.

Mongolia's giant coal mine to start production on Dec 1

Thu Oct 13, 2011

ULAN BATOR Oct 13 (Reuters) - Mongolia will start producing coal from the eastern block of the giant Tavan Tolgoi coal deposit in the Gobi desert on Dec. 1, the head of one of the companies entrusted with its development told Reuters on Thursday.

"We have all the necessary rights to start production on December 1," said Wolfgang Peters, chairman of Germany's BBM Operta Group, which was awarded the contract to develop the eastern Tsankhi block of Tavan Tolgoi with Australia's Macmahon Holdings in August.

Peters, who was in Mongolia as part of a delegation accompanying German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said output from the block is expected to reach 3 million tonnes in 2012, and eventually rise to 15 million tonnes per year.

Mongolia plans to list the east Tsankhi block, which covers about 40 percent of the total area of the estimated 7.5-billion tonne Tavan Tolgoi deposit, in a multibillion dollar international IPO scheduled for the first half of next year.

But analysts have expressed concern that political uncertainties could still delay the project, with Mongolia's parliament still to approve a politically contentious investment agreement for the western block.

Following complaints from Japanese and South Korean bidders, the government backtracked from a previous deal granting 40 percent of the block to China's Shenhua Energy , 36 percent to a Russian-Mongolian consortium and 24 percent to Peabody of the United States.

Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi, the state-owned company in charge of the deposit, said last month that all the original bidders were still in the running.

Local media reports suggested last week that the Japanese and South Korean bidders would become part of a Peabody-led consortium and be granted a total stake of 33 percent, with Shenhua and the Russian consortium also granted 33 percent.

The Mongolian government is keen to get a deal in place for both the eastern and western blocks of Tavan Tolgoi as soon as possible as it strives to fulfil promises it made to the electorate in 2008.

But a growing number of voices have been calling for the project to be delayed until after next year's parliamentary elections, saying that populist jockeying could harm decision-making.

http://af.reuters.com/article/metalsNew ... EL20111013

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La compagnie electrique en Serbie a signé un contrat préliminaire avec un consortium Chinois pour la construction en Serbie d' une centrale à charbon de 744 MW d' un cout estimé à 2 milliards d' Euros.

Serbia, China sign deal for coal plant, mine

(Reuters) - Serbia's power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) said on Thursday it has signed a preliminary deal with a Chinese consortium to jointly build a 744 megawatt coal-fired unit at an estimated cost of more than 2 billion euros ($2.7 billion).

Under the deal, the consortium that includes China Environmental Energy Holdings Co. Ltd and Shenzhen Energy Group Co. Ltd, and EPS will form a joint venture for the future project, EPS said in a statement.

It said the project includes the construction of the coal-fired unit in the southwestern town of Obrenovac, part of its Nikola Tesla power complex, and upgrade of the Radeljevo coal mine that will feed the plant.

EPS said it also agreed with Chinese partners to define future cooperation on a number of renewable energy projects, in particular biomass, but provided no further detail.

The deal is the latest in a series of energy projects agreed over the past two years with China, which was considered the Balkan nation's closest ally, along with Russia, when Serbia faced international isolation in the 1990s.

Serbia produces 70 percent of its power in coal-fired plants and the rest from hydro power. in 2010, EPS produced 36 GWh of electricity, or 1 percent above the target, with hydro output hitting a record level.

It urgently needs to upgrade its energy infrastructure, damaged and mismanaged during the Balkan wars of 1990s, to meet growing demand and reduce future reliance on imports. ($1 = 0.725 Euros)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/ ... O420111020

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La Colombie annonce passer d' une exportation de 75 millions de tonnes de charbon en 2011 à 100 millions de tonnes en 2015.

Colombian annual coal exports may reach 100 million tonnes by 2015

05 Nov 2011

It is reported that Colombia's annual coal exports are expected to reach 100 million tonnes by 2015, up by a third from current levels following a surge in foreign investment into the sector.

Mr Mauricio Cardenas mining and energy minister of Colombia said that the country's coal projects benefit from ample reserves, relatively high calorific product and Colombia's proximity to Atlantic ports. In addition, its largest mines are open pit operations from which coal extraction is relatively straightforward.

He added that "We aren't in the big leagues of production, but we are in exports partly because Colombia uses very little coal, generating most of our electricity with hydropower. So we have a lot to export. And with coal prices where they are, royalties are becoming a very important source of revenue for the government."

Mr Cardenas said that the country is forecast to export 75 million tonnes of coal in 2011, making it the fifth largest coal exporter globally after Australia, Indonesia, South Africa and Russia.

http://www.steelguru.com/raw_material_n ... 34164.html

[energy_isere]

Hausse plus modérée de la consommation de charbon d'ici 2016, selon l'AIE

PARIS - La consommation de charbon dans le monde devrait continuer à croître d'ici 2016 mais de manière plus modérée que lors de la dernière décennie, tirée toujours par la Chine, affirme l'Agence internationale de l'énergie (AIE) dans un rapport spécifique publié mardi.

La demande en charbon va augmenter d'environ 18%, passant de 5.225 miliards de tonnes équivalent carbone (Mtce) en 2010 à 6.184 Mtce en 2016, grâce à la consommation de la Chine (+24% à 3.123 Mtce) et de l'Inde (+40,5% à 610 Mtce).

La consommation avait davantage augmenté lors de la dernière décennie, grimpant de 70%, de 3.700 Mtce en 2000 à 6,3 milliards de tonnes en 2010, ce qui avait conduit à une hausse sans précédent des prix en 2007 et 2008.

Dans les pays de l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économique (OCDE), dont l'AIE est le bras énergétique, la consommation sera au contraire léthargique d'ici 2016 (+0,9%), avec une demande américaine qui devrait fléchir de 1,5% entre 2010 et 2016, sans revenir au niveau de 2007.

La demande des Etats-Unis, plus gros consommateur de charbon depuis un siècle, a atteint un sommet en 2007 et diminue depuis en raison de l'utilisation croissante d'autres sources d'énergie, telles que le gaz naturel, et de nouvelles lois en faveur de l'environnement, explique l'AIE.

http://www.romandie.com/news/n/_Hausse_ ... 111512.asp

avec un beau bug dans Romandie que j' ai corrigé en rouge (ils avaient mis millions)

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en rapport avec ce post : viewtopic.php?p=304226#p304226

Les Colombiens annoncent une production de 97 millions de tonnes de charbon en 2012, en hausse depuis 85 millions de tonnes en 2011.

Colombia Sees 2012 Coal Output Rising 14% From Year Earlier

Colombia, South America’s largest coal supplier, said its output of the fuel will climb about 14 percent this year amid mine expansions.

Production will rise to 97 million tons from an estimated 85 million tons last year, Mines and Energy Minister Mauricio Cardenas said yesterday in an interview in Bogota.

Oil output will rise 18 percent to an average of 1.1 million barrels a day in December from 930,000 barrels a day last month, he said.

Colombia is South America’s third-largest oil producer.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-1 ... rlier.html

[nemo]

Un article sur la concurrence entre l'Inde et la Chine pour les investissements dans le charbon. Concurrence dont pour le moment les pays occidentaux sont plus ou moins exclus. Ces 2 pays comptent actuellement pour 24% des importations mondiales (respectivement 9 et 15%) ; alors que la Chine était encore exportatrice en 2008 .
http://www.enerzine.com/41/13380/le-cha ... rdata.html

[akochan]

Encore une question, dispose-on encore de réserves de charbon en France et si les prix montent deviendrait-il rentable de réouvrir des mines?

[Glycogène]

J'avais lu 90 millions de tonnes. l'équivalent d'1 an et demi de notre pic de production (à vérifier...).

[phyvette]

Encore une question, dispose-on encore de réserves de charbon en France?

On en parlait déjà en 2005

[energy_isere]

Si méme avec les cout horaire en Roumanie ils n' arrivent pa à faire du charbon concurentiel , c'est que ces mines doivent étres bien peu productives.....

L'Europe aide la roumanie à fermer ses mines de charbon

La Commission européenne a autorisé la Roumanie à octroyer à l'entreprise National Hard Coal Company JSC Petrosani (CNH SA) un financement public de 1169 millions de RON (soit 270 millions d'euros environ) pour la fermeture de 3 de ses mines de charbon non concurrentielles.
Elle estime en effet que la mesure est conforme aux règles de l'UE en matière d'aides d'État. D'une part, l'aide à la production diminuera au fil du temps et d'autre part la Roumanie s'est engagée à prendre des mesures d'accompagnement pour atténuer les effets sociaux et environnementaux des fermetures.

La décision du Conseil relative aux aides d’État destinées à faciliter la fermeture des mines de charbon qui ne sont pas compétitives autorise les pouvoirs publics à accorder, sous certaines conditions, une aide à l'industrie houillère en vue de faciliter, d'ici décembre 2018, la fermeture des mines de charbon non concurrentielles.

National Hard Coal Company JSC Petrosani, qui est une entreprise publique, est la seule entreprise à produire du charbon en Roumanie. Elle compte actuellement 7 unités de production de charbon. Les autorités roumaines ont décidé d'en fermer 3 d'entre elles, jugées non concurrentielles. La première (Petrila Colliery) fermerait fin 2015 et les deux autres (Uricani et Paroseni Collieries) fin 2017.

Le plan de fermeture communiqué par la Roumanie conduit à une réduction progressive du montant global de l'aide accordée pour couvrir les coûts de production, conformément à la décision du Conseil Européen. De plus, ce plan contient des mesures pour atténuer les effets sur l'environnement de la production de charbon. La Roumanie s'est aussi engagée à soutenir les mineurs qui devront être licenciés et à prévoir leur reconversion afin de les aider à trouver un nouvel emploi en dehors de l'industrie houillère.

http://www.enerzine.com/41/13542+leurop ... rbon+.html

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La Colombie va commencer en fin d' année les travaux d' aménagement d' un terminal en eaux profondes d' exportation de charbon . Objectif d' export de 5 millions de t par an dans la première phase, puis 22 millions de t par an à terme.

Colombian coal port construction to start by end of year: manager

Cartagena, Colombia (Platts) 14Mar2012

Construction of Colombia's first deep-water river coal port near Barranquilla will begin by year's end, general manager of project operator Sociedad Portuaria de Bocas de Ceniza Rosy del Dago said in an interview.

The Superpuerto project is to be built at the mouth of the Magdalena River and will be used to transfer thermal and metallurgical coal from river barges from central Colombia to Capesize bulk carriers destined for export markets.

Part of the project includes dredging a channel on the river bed to a depth of 64 feet to allow the loading of Capesize carriers.

According to del Dago, the port project is to have an initial investment of around $240 million and is expected to have an intial throughput of 5 million mt/year, which is to be expanded to 22 million mt/year five years later.

The project is to be built in three phases, the first being the coal port, the second a liquid bulk port handling crude oil and the third a container yard.

The first phase of the project includes a barge unloading terminal and a stockpile stacker with a peak unloading rate of 5,000 mt/hour of coal and a coal storage yard with minimum capacity of 800,000 mt.

"The first phase will take two years to build. We aim to start construction at the end of the year and we hope to be ready by the end of 2014. The idea is to start accelerating the new stages of the project once the first phase is done," del Dago said.

"Everything depends on when the major shareholders take control of the society. We still have to close the deal but we are now finalizing the final details, which should be ready by the end of May," she added.

Market sources said that, besides a Mississippi River port operator and several American investors, the project shareholders will include a European commodities trader and an Asian coal end-user.

Colombia, the world's fourth-largest thermal coal exporter, has most of its deep-water coal ports on the Atlantic Coast of Colombia.

These include the Carbones del Cerrejon-owned Puerto Bolivar in the northernmost La Guajira region, and Glencore's Puerto Prodeco close to the city of Santa Marta.

http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNe ... al/6056005

[energy_isere]

Challenges du 15 Mars 2012

vous aurez lu comme moi ''il en existe en quantité infinie''

Ils sont pas encore au courant du peak charbon pour 2040 à The Economist.