US weekly coal production came flat week on week

30 October 2017

United States of America, the world’s second largest coal producer have produced estimated approximately 14.9 million short tons (mmst) of coal for the week ending October 21, 2017, EIA said in its latest report.

As per the same report, this production estimate is about the same as last week’s estimate and 1.3% lower than the production estimate in the comparable week in 2016.

East of the Mississippi River produced totalled an estimated 5.6 mmst (down 1.75% week over week) and west of the Mississippi River produced totalled an estimated 9.3 mmst (up 1.08% week over week), according to weekly figures released by the US Energy Information Agency (EIA), on October 26, 2017.

US year-to-date (as of October 21, 2017) coal production totalled an estimated totalled 635.6 mmst, 10.4% higher than the comparable year-to-date coal production in 2016.