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Glacier files 56th North Fork plan ahead of Bob Gardes taking helm
Kay Cashman
Petroleum News
On Dec. 29 Cook Inlet Energy, a Glacier Oil and Gas company, filed its latest plan of development for the Kenai Peninsula North Fork unit with Alaskas Division of Oil and Gas. The 56th POD runs from March 31, 2021, through March 30, 2022.
Glacier sold the North Fork unit to Gardes Holdings, parent of Gardes Energy LLC, which applied with the division to be the new operator and leaseholder of the field in early November. (Per a previous announcement by Glacier, the purchase agreement with Gardes was dated Oct. 13 and effective Nov. 2.)
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Exceptionally cold weather sweeping through China has caused a huge increase in power demand in the world’s largest energy consumer and hampered transportation.
FILE PHOTO: Power lines are seen along a highway on the outskirts of Beijing, China February 3, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Lee
Frigid weather across north Asia has caught utilities and liquefied natural gas importers off guard as demand for power lowered inventories and pushed spot prices to record levels.
China’s Central Meteorological Station released the first cold warning in 2021 earlier in the week to several regions. Cities such as the eastern port city of Qingdao recorded the lowest temperature in history and the capital city Beijing had coldest day since the 1960s on Jan 7.
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JERA Co. Inc., through its subsidiary Hitachinaka Generation Co. Inc., has begun commercial operation at the Hitachinaka Joint Thermal Power Station Unit 1.
Located on the site of JERA’s Hitachinaka Thermal Power Station, this high-efficiency coal-fired power station uses an ultra-supercritical power generation system (USC) with a generating capacity of 650 MW. It also introduces state-of-the-art environmental equipment to mitigate environmental impact.
JERA will continue to employ high-efficiency coal-fired power stations and develop decarbonisation technologies as part of its efforts to maintain a stable supply of electricity and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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Six new coal projects in Xinjiang ‘unrelated to drop in imports from Australia’
Huang Lanlan Published: Jan 07, 2021 10:05 PM
Photo taken on Dec. 22, 2020 shows a thermal coal yard of Huanghua Port in Cangzhou City, north China s Hebei Province. Huanghua Port, one of the key ports for thermal coal transportation in China, has stepped up its turnover rate since this December. A daily average of 500,000 tonnes of thermal coal is loaded to ships at the port now to quench the thirst for coal-fired power generation in southern parts of the country. (Xinhua/Wang Min)China s energy administrators have announced the approval of six construction projects for coal development bases, and the move has little to do with the drop in coal imports form Australia, industry insiders told the Global Times Thursday.
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At least five popular recreation areas in Southern Alberta are surrounded by coal exploration plans and one of them has been partly given over to an exploration lease, raising questions about their future with lovers of the outdoors.
“We’re not leaving a picnic table and a campground on the precipice of an open-pit mine,” said Katie Morrison of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPWS). “I can’t imagine that [parks] could continue if some of these mining plans go forward.”