US Coal Production reaches 19.9 MnT by Week 4

United States (US), one of the largest coal producing countries, weekly production has grown by 2.7%. The country produced about 19.9 million metric short tonnes of coal at the end of the week 4 (18-24 Jan, 2015).

US weekly coal production augmented slightly against previous week and also registered a growth of 2.6% from comparable week of 2014. The country has produced about 65.7 mmst YTD coal that includes Coking, Non-coking & Anthracite, which is about 2% higher than comparable YTD coal production in 2014, reported by the US government agency.

Coal production from East of the Mississippi River totaled 8.3 mmst and from the West of the Mississippi River totaled 11.6 mmst during week-end. In total weekly production, about 19.8 mmst were Bituminous and Lignite collectively and rest 34 thousand short tonnes was Anthracite.

US coal production rose by 1.2% in 2014 but it’s projected to fall in coming two years as weak demand and high production cost have been faced by US coal miners. Domestic coal consumption could increase slightly in 2015 despite of global natural gas price decline and government’s environment protection rules for coal based power plants in 2015.