US year to date coal production totalled at 54.1 MMST

5 February 2018

US, world’s second largest coal producing country, produced an estimated 15.3 million short tons (mmst) of coal for the week ending January 27, 2018, EIA said in its latest report. According to EIA’s latest report, this production estimate is 4.7% higher than last week’s estimate and 3.2% lower than the production estimate in the comparable week in 2017.

East of the Mississippi River produced an estimated 6.2 mmst (up 5.08 percent) and west of the Mississippi River produced an estimated 9.2 mmst (up 4.54 per cent) according to weekly figures released by the US Energy Information Agency (EIA), on February 1, 2018.

US year-to-date (as of January 27, 2017) coal production totalled an estimated 54.1 mmst, 8.8% lower than the comparable year-to-date coal production in 2017.

US coal output in 2017

Coal production for the first 11 months of 2017 is estimated to have been 719 mmst, 54 mmst (8%) higher than production for the same period in 2016. Annual production is expected to be 791 mmst in 2017, falling to 771 mmst in 2018 because of lower exports and no growth in coal consumption

US coal Exports in 2017

US coal exports for the first three quarters of 2017 were 69 mmst, 68% (28 mmst) higher than exports for the same period in 2016. This total for the first three quarters of 2017 is already 14% (8 mmst) higher than total annual coal exports in 2016. EIA expects that exports will total 89 mmst in 2017 and 74 mmst in 2018

Source: EIA