US Coal updates – US coal production and exports jump in 2017

16 October 2017

As per the recent data from the US Energy Information Agency (EIA), country’s coal production for September 2017 was an estimated 66 million short tons (MMst), up 1 MMst (1%) from September 2016. Coal production for the first nine months of 2017 was 591 MMst, 62 MMst (12%) higher than in the same period in 2016. Coal production is expected to increase by 8% in 2017 and by less than 1% in 2018.

Furthermore, the US year-to-date (as of October 7, 2017) coal production totalled an estimated totalled 605.7 mmst, 11.3% higher than the comparable year-to-date coal production in 2016.

Moreover, the coal exports for the first seven months of 2017 totalled 51 MMst, which was 62% higher than in the same period of 2016. EIA expects growth in coal exports to slow, with exports for all of 2017 forecast at 75 MMst, 15 MMst (24%) higher than the 2016 level.