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Hunan province consumed 34.09 Mt of thermal coal in 2021, jumping 25.6% YoY. The coverage days of thermal coal stocks at the province's major utilities stayed below the levels in 2019 and 2020.
Electricity consumption in Hunan province grew 11.7% YoY to 215.45 TWh in 2021, with two-year growth at 7.5% over 2019-2021. The separate growths for each quarter last year were 17.2%, 13.1%, 11.0% and 6.6%, driven mainly by stable economic growth.
China's steel products prices may maintain small fluctuations with thin possibility for large rise in the short run, impacted by the resurgent COVID-19 pandemic, Winter Olympics and the upcoming Spring Festival, following narrowed price declines in Dec 2021 amid stable demand.
Xinlingol, a major coal base in Inner Mongolia, saw 2021 raw coal production reach a 5-year high of 122 Mt, up by 11% YoY, staying above 100 Mt for 4 consecutive years. Production of lignite rose by 11.5% YoY to 121 Mt.
Thermal coal price of the monitored coal enterprises in Zhejiang averaged 965.83 yuan/t in Dec 2021, rising 1.5% MoM and jumping 67.5% YoY. Coal sales of these enterprises totaled 10.05 Mt, falling 12.6% MoM and down 16.3% YoY.
As of 15:00 p.m. (GMT+8) Jan 24, Chinese coke futures opened the daytime session at 2,905.0 yuan/t and closed at 2,900.0 yuan/t, down 1.59%; coking coal opened at 2,208.0 yuan/t and closed at 2,166.0 yuan/t, down 3.86%. Thermal coal dropped by 3.82 % to 739.6 yuan/t at close, after opening at 772.0 yuan/t.
China imported 7.49 Mt of coking coal in Dec, surging 109.73% YoY yet down 3.28% MoM, sending the 2021 total imports to 54.7 Mt, with value at $11.02 billion, up 30.69% YoY, showed data from GAC.
As of 11:30 a.m. (GMT+8) Jan 24, Chinese coking coal futures dipped 1.44%, coke dropped 0.29%, thermal coal fell 3.64% and iron ore dropped 0.07%.
Kemerovo, Sakha Republic and Novosibirsk remained the top coking coal origins in Russia in Nov. Kemerovo shipped 1.26 Mt of coking coal, down 28.87% YoY and 14.42% MoM, while exports from Sakha Republic climbed 7.67% YoY but fell 9.62% MoM to 882,100 t and shipments from Novosibirsk increased 11.84% MoM to 217,400 t.
China, Ukraine and South Korea were top three destinations of Russian coking coal in Nov, taking 71% of the total, up 9 pps from Oct.
Russia's coking coal exports declined 9.28% YoY and 12.06% MoM to 2.53 Mt in Nov, coking coal with exports value at $525 million, and average price at $207.26/t, surging 193.01% YoY and 29.02% MoM, according to the Federal Customs Service of Russia.
Ukraine's coal production in 2021 was 29.39 Mt, up 2% YoY, with thermal coal production at 22.15 Mt, down 2.3% YoY and coking coal output up 18% to 7.23 Mt, showed data from the Ministry of Energy.
China Shenhua Energy Co., Ltd. saw its polyolefin sales rise 14.9% YoY to 53,100 t in Dec, up 0.76% MoM, the company said in a report on Jan 21. Polyethylene sales rose 4.8% YoY to 26,200 t in the month, while polypropylene sales were 26,900 t, a YoY increase of 26.9%.
China Shenhua Energy Co., Ltd., the country's largest listed coal producer, reported a 5.3% YoY rise in saleable coal production in the full year of 2021 while its coal sales in the year also increased 8%. The company's saleable coal production totaled 307 Mt in 2021, with that in Dec at 29 Mt , and coal sales came in at 482.3 Mt and that in Dec was 51.6 Mt.
Russia imported 2.53 Mt of coking coal in Nov, down 8.93% YoY and 11.35% MoM, showed data from the Federal Customs Service of Russia.
China's coking coal prices leveled off at main production areas, as most coke producers completed winter restocking and slowed down purchases approaching the Lunar New Year holiday. On Ja
Truck freight rates for coal transport edged up recently in key production areas in North China, driven by increased buying interest from inland utilities, cement and chemical plants. Sporadic flare-u
China's domestic thermal coal prices rose notably again last week, fueled by the ongoing shortage of high-CV cargoes at northern ports. Increased demand due to the upcoming Winter Olympics also drove
China's metallurgical coke market saw an impasse between coking plants and steel mills over the fourth round of coke price hike last week. But a moderate improvement in sentiment was observed late las
China's raw coal production hit historical high in December, with top producing provinces contributing most of the increase. The country produced 384.67 million tonnes of raw coal in Dece
China's thermal coal prices embraced a round of sustained rebounds last week on the back of active replenishment from downstream buyers ahead of the Spring Festival holiday. Will the snowfall and the
China imported 507,300 tonnes of anthracite in December, slumping 68.81% from a year ago and 54.63% from the preceding month, showed data from the General Administration of Customs on January 24.
China's coking coal imports surged 109.73% year on year but fell 3.28% month on month to 7.49 million tonnes in December, customs data showed on January 24. The import value
Thermal Coal Production area Thermal coal supply continued to contract alongside some mines' Spring Festival holiday leave, while mines' coal stock started to accumulate due to snow-incurred sh
China's coking coal market mainly remained stable during the past week given weak supply and demand, while some regions saw both downtrends and uptrends. Higher offers were mainly for pre
China's production of coal, coke, crude steel and other main industrial products in December 2021
China Shenhua Energy Co., Ltd., the country's largest listed coal producer, reported a 5.3% year-on-year rise in saleable coal production in the full year of 2021 while its coal sales in the year also
Indonesia has terminated the coal export ban in advance for 139 mining companies, which account for the most of the country's major miners, according to a government circular on January 20.
China's power consumption reached 8,312.8 TWh of electricity in 2021, up 10.3% from 2020 and 14.7% from 2019, with two-year average growth at 7.1%. showed data from National Energy Administration on J
High seaborne prices will prompt India to raise domestic coal supply and limit imports, Reuters reported. All coal needed for India's grid-connected power plants is scheduled to be provid
China's central state-owned enterprises produced over 1 billion tonnes of coal in 2021 for the first time in history, Peng Huagang, Secretary General of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administ
China had 20 coal mining companies with annual production above 30 million tonnes in 2021. These 20 companies produced 2.66 billion tonnes of coal on aggregate, up 78.7 million tonnes or 3.1% from a y
Shanxi, a major coal production hub in North China, has completed the signing of 1.09 billion tonnes of mid- and long-term coal supply contracts for 2022, a further increase of 105 million tonnes from
China's raw coal output was 384.67 million tonnes in December, up 7.2% from the year prior, with the growth expanding by 2.6 percentage points from November and presenting the largest rise since April
China's top economic planning agency said the domestic coal supply can be guaranteed after gaining an initial achievement of stabilizing supplies and prices with continued efforts since October.
High-quality coking coal prices have surged by more than 300 yuan/t in China's top production hub of Shanxi since the start of December, with a tightening supply-demand fundamental fueled by the stron
China's coking coal supplies are likely to be affected as the country is imposing tougher restrictions to battle the multiple outbreaks of the delta and omicron variants ahead of a travel rush before
A swift lift of Indonesia's coal export ban is still nowhere in sight as the country is hoping to drastically resolve the coal supply shortage for domestic power plants and find a permanent way to pre
China's domestic thermal coal market showed signs of weakening on January 11 as the sentiment weakened after Indonesia greenlit a dozen of vessels to sail out and planned to reopen coal export gradual
Chinese metallurgical coke producers continued to press for a further price hike at the start of the week in light of strong replenishment demand from steel mills and continued increase in coking coal
Longde Coal Mine in Shenmu, northwestern China's Shaanxi province said on January 10 that it would replace the original market-oriented pricing with the long-term contract pricing for its mine-mouth s
China's thermal coal market on January 12 was largely unchanged as participants were confused about Indonesia's erratic attitude towards the export ban, which has been in place for 12 days.
Indonesian thermal coal prices have been stable for weeks since the country enacted a ban on coal exports for the whole month of January, but the prices are likely to jump strongly once the ban is lif
Some Chinese listed coking coal producers may see their financial performance remain strong in the first quarter in 2022, as major miners' contract prices for the quarter jumped more than 50% from the
China's coal production hits record highs in December and in the full year of 2021, as the government continued to encourage miners to ramp up output to ensure energy supply, which has greatly offset
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