“The much-speculated deal between underground coal gasification company Linc Energy and India’s Adani Enterprises is set to be signed tomorrow, giving the subcontinent’s commodity trader control of Linc’s $1 billion Queensland coal asset”, The Age / Business day reported.
Adani’s billionaire chairman Gautam Adani met Linc’s chief executive Peter Bond in Brisbane over the weekend and reached an agreement on the sale of Linc’s Galilee coal tenement, believed to have reserves of 7 to 8 billion tonnes.
Sources close to the deal said Adani would invest in the project, setting a production target of over 50 million tonnes of Coal in the next four years. Mr Adani will stay in Brisbane for the expected signing of the deal tomorrow.
The news confirms market expectations of an agreement. Shares in Linc soared nearly 18 per cent two weeks ago after Adani, a known suitor for its coal assets, announced it had raised $US850 million ($A961.3 million) via an institutional share sale.
At that point, Mr Bond did his best to pull down an intense interest, saying Linc had ”not concluded any binding contract or finalised any material terms with any party” and that it would ”immediately advise the market should this position change”.
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