US coal output rises 0.9% year on year to 18.9 mil st in week ending Nov 15: EIA

Washington (Platts)--20Nov2014/356 pm EST/2056 GMT

US coal production totaled about 18.9 million st in the week that ended November 15, the Energy Information Administration said Thursday.

This production estimate, based on railcar loadings, is 0.1% lower than the previous week's estimate and 0.9% higher than output in the comparable week in 2013, the agency said.

Coal production east of the Mississippi River totaled 7.9 million st while output west of the Mississippi totaled 11.0 million st, EIA said.

US year-to-date coal production totaled 867.6 million st, 0.1% higher than in the comparable period in 2013, it added.

--Keiron Greenhalgh, keiron.greenhalgh@platts.com
--Edited by Derek Sands, derek.sands@platts.com

 

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