According to the short-range outlook report issued by IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long steel products, global demand has remained at reasonable levels during the course of the last 30 days. The market has ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
In the first half of the current year, Ukraine's coal mining output decreased by 0.5 percent year on year to 40.577 million mt, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry. In the meantime, in the first six months of this ...
Tags: Coal Mining, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
On July 8, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (June 30-July 6) the overall average finished steel price in China decreased by 0.1 percent compared to the previous week. Last week, the average prices of ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Steel, Metal
China's coal mining and washing industry reported profits falling 43.9% year on year to Yuan 51.26 billion ($8.3 billion) during the first five months of this year, mainly due to sagging coal prices, data from the National Bureau of ...
Tags: Coal Mining, Washing Industry
Uncertainty over the scale of widely-expected price cuts by Chinese coal producers for July domestic cargoes has cast a cloud over the South China market for imported thermal coal, market sources said Tuesday. Because of this, buyers and ...
Tags: Thermal coal, Domestic Cargoes
The over-the-counter price for 8,800 Btu/lb Powder River Basin coal dipped again Monday, as rail issues overhang the Western market. Mines in BNSF Railway's service area, in the northern reach of the basin, are having trouble guaranteeing ...
Tags: physical market, Western market
China's largest coal producer Shenhua Group is trying to persuade traders and utilities to buy more coal in a bid to reduce inventories at ports as relatively high stocks at utilities and robust hydropower production continue to weigh on ...
Tags: Coal Stocks, China's Shenhua
Turkey continues to take steps toward increasing its own security of supply, as energy use is expected to double by 2023, triggering a requirement for around 100 GW of capacity, although market participants said the current "crisis" in the ...
Tags: Gas Market, Gas plant
US coal stockpiles essentially held steady at 141 million st in the week that ended Thursday, but are likely to begin declining in the coming weeks as coal burn increases with summer demand, according to Bentek Energy. Bentek, a unit of ...
Tags: coal stockpiles, coal consumption
Rhino Resource Partners soon will make its first shipment of high-sulfur steam coal from the new Pennyrile underground mine in Western Kentucky to Louisville Gas & Electric, a Rhino official said Monday. Pennyrile, also known as ...
Tags: Steam Coal, high-sulfur steam coal
Bearish factors weighing on the Chinese market were offsetting any positive sentiment on Indian demand for Indonesian thermal coal, sources said Thursday. A Singapore-based source for a major producer said he did not share in the bullish ...
Tags: Chinese market, thermal coal
US over-the-counter thermal coal prices closed mixed on Friday as traders digested the most recent weekly natural gas storage data, which propelled natural gas front-month futures to more than a five-week high in the previous session. The ...
Tags: Natural Gas, thermal coal
US over-the-counter thermal coal prices closed mixed on Monday, with only a handful of trades seen trading in the session. Barged Central Appalachian thermal coal rose 25 cents/st along the 2014-2015 curve, while CAPP rail (CSX) prices ...
Tags: Coal Prices, thermal coal
Southern Coal Corp is seeing an uptick in demand for high-quality steam coal this year, but the metallurgical side of its business continues to lag, which is why the company has temporarily idled its Tams No 1 mine in Raleigh County, West ...
Tags: Steam Coal, steam coal production
Russian gas exports to Europe via Ukraine are continuing as per normal at about 185 million cubic meters/d, despite an explosion Tuesday afternoon at a Ukrainian gas pipeline, Gazprom deputy chairman Vitaly Markelov said Wednesday. "Gas ...
Tags: Gas Exports, gas pipeline