Bloomberg Coal miners including Consol Energy Inc and Contura Energy Inc must shutter their operations in Pennsylvania after the governor ordered “non-life-sustaining” businesses to close. The order took effect from March 19, according to a statement from Gov. Tom Wolf. Pennsylvania is the latest state to order commercial activities to shut down as governments move to slow the spread of ...

Bloomberg South Africa’s state-owned utility has yet to agree a supply contract for the bulk of coal needed for its newest power station, more than a decade after approving a plan to negotiate with Anglo American Plc. In 2007, an Eskom Holding SOC Ltd committee signed off on the start of talks with Anglo for as much as 17 million ...

Bloomberg Mexico slashed the price for its flagship Maya crude, the latest producer to discount its cargoes as the coronavirus pandemic destroys fuel demand and Saudi Arabia floods the world with crude. Petroleos Mexicanos’s trading arm PMI lowered its Maya crude differential into US Gulf Coast by $2 to minus $10.05 a barrel for April, PMI said. The so-called K ...