Michael Cooper
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November 8, 2018 00:01 UTC 
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For power plant operators in Northeast Asia striving to optimize their operational efficiency, the prices of imported gas and thermal coal are clearly key considerations. But a direct comparison between the two fuel sources for power generation is not an easy one to make, given they are traded in different units of energy content. |
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Michael Cooper
Reporter
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February 26, 2018 07:17 UTC
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After a number of lean years, the sun is again shining for some thermal coal producers, as profits roll in at a heady rate that could easily be mistaken for another commodities boom. Take Glencore for example. In delivering his company’s exceptional 2017 results this week, Glencore’s CEO Ivan Glasenberg said: “Our performance in 2017 was our strongest on record, driven by our leading marketing and industrial asset businesses.” |
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Michael Cooper
Reporter
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March 14, 2017 08:28 UTC
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Comedy actor Peter Sellers knew a thing or two about comic timing and delivery needed to make a good joke shine. After all he played Inspector Clouseau, Dr Stranglove, and Dr Fritz Fassbender among his many famous Hollywood characters. That’s why when Sellers sang the old Cockney London musical hall song Any Old Iron, he was able to deliver with aplomb the line, ‘You look neat. Talk about a treat! You look so dapper from your napper* to your feet.’ Neat now has a different meaning to Platts, but of course this would be unknown to Sellers and the Cockney musical hall songwriters of Any Old Iron. |
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