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Benchmark: battery supply chain hit by Chinese energy cuts

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Benchmark Minerals reports that China’s ongoing energy shortage, which has seen local governments enforce intermittent power cuts since July 2021, has begun to affect domestic anode and cathode production as several producers were forced to scale back production in late Q3.

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Shell, Shenhua to Partner on RD in Advanced Coal Technology; Shell Qualifies 3 Chinese Companies to Manufacture Gasification Technology

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Shell) also qualified three Chinese companies for the manufacture of key equipment for the Shell Coal Gasification Process (SCGP), in order to make the Shell technology more competitive in the Chinese market. Shell has signed 19 licensing agreements with different Chinese users. Shell and Shenhua. Gasification equipment.

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Sinopec establishes coal-to-chemical unit

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Sinopec Great Wall Energy Chemical Co., The group planned to build six coal-to-chemical bases across the country from 2011 to 2015, with the bases spreading in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Guizhou Province, Anhui Province, Henan Province and Ningxia Autonomous Region, each. China Petroleum Corp.

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Chinas Guizhou province proposes $11.3B coal-to-oil plant

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36 million barrels, depending upon output product) coal-to-oil project using domestically developed indirect coal liquefaction technology approved by the National Energy Administration earlier this year. State-owned Shenhua Group Corp—the country’s largest coal miner and parent of China Shenhua Energy Co Ltd.—has

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Next Fuel, Inc. signs definitive agreement to field test coal-to-gas technology in China; Chinese partner makes strategic investment

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Two days ago, Next Fuel announced the signing of a definitive agreement with PT Enviro Energy to field-test Next Fuel’s CTG technology to determine the commercial viability of utilizing it to produce natural gas at PT Enviro Energy’s coal deposits in Indonesia. Next Fuel, Inc.,

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$1.1B Huineng SNG plant goes on-stream transforming coal into natural gas in China

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Haldor Topsoe A/S announced that Huineng, a large-scale SNG (Substitute Natural Gas) plant, went successfully on-stream near the city of Ordos, located in Inner Mongolia in the northern part of China. The Huineng SNG plant is owned and operated by the private Chinese company Huineng Coal Electricity Group and represents an investment of US$1.1

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Duke study finds China’s synthetic natural gas plants will have heavy environmental toll; 2x vehicle GHG if used for fuel

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As part of the largest investment in coal-fueled synthetic natural gas plants ever, the central Chinese government recently approved construction of nine large-scale plants capable of producing more than 37 billion cubic meters of synthetic natural gas annually. These plants are coming online at a rapid pace. —Chi-Jen Yang.

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