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Weekly US coal production declines to 16.5 mmst; slide 14.9% y-o-y: EIA

United States the world’s second largest coal producer has produced approximately totaled an estimated 16.5 million short tons (mmst) of coal in a week (For the week ended November 7, 2015), EIA said in its latest report.

According to EIA’s latest report, this production estimate is 1.0% lower than last week's estimate and 14.9% lower than the production estimate in the comparable week in 2014.

East of the Mississippi River produced totaled an estimated 6.5 mmst ( flat week over week) and west of the Mississippi River produced totaled an estimated 10.0 mmst (down 0.99 per cent week over week) , according to weekly figures released by the US Energy Information Agency (EIA), on November 12, 2015.

U.S. year-to-date (as of November 7, 2015) coal production totaled an estimated 775.6 mmst, 8.9% lower than lower than the comparable year-to-date coal production in 2014.

source: http://coalspot.com