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With nuclear off and coal thin, Japan hunts for LNG
A few Japanese power companies are tentatively seeking spot cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG), as they brace for a hot summer with low coal stocks and reduced nuclear power rates, market sources said on Friday.
But even coupled with opportunistic buying from India and China, the fresh demand seems unlikely to lift Asian spot LNG [...]
S.Korea KEPCO seeks to secure overseas coal mines
South Korea’s Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) is trying to secure overseas coal mines as early as this year as it seeks a steady coal supply for its generators, the company’s president said on Wednesday.
State-run KEPCO, which currently holds no stakes in coal mines, will also look at mergers with overseas electric power companies in [...]
Move over, Fortune 500
o many Americans, names like Ranbaxy, Reliance and L&T probably don’t ring a bell. For that matter nor do Enbraer, Cemex or Galanz. But then a host of Japanese (Toyota, Honda) and South Korean (Samsung, LG) companies were largely unknown in the 1960s and 1970s and were dismissed as no-hopers by their competitors from the [...]
