Houston — Weekly US coal production totaled an estimated 15.4 million st in the week ended August 11, down 3% from the prior week and down 2% from the year-ago week, US Energy Information Administration data showed Thursday.
The most recent week was the third-highest production week this year.
Coal production in Wyoming and Montana, which is mostly made up of production from the Powder River Basin, totaled an estimated 7.1 million st, down 3.4% from last week and down 7.6% compared with the year-ago week.
On an annualized basis, production in the two states would total 339 million st, down 3.4% from last year.
In Central Appalachia, weekly coal production totaled an estimated 2 million st, up 0.2% from last week and up 14.6% from last year. Annualized production would total 96.7 million st, up 5.6% from 2017.
Weekly coal production in Northern Appalachia totaled an estimated 2 million st, down 4.5% from last week and up 0.7% compared with last year. Annualized production would total 99.6 million st, down 5.2% from last year.
In the Illinois Basin, weekly coal production totaled an estimated 1.6 million st, down 1.5% from last week and up 2.2% from last year. Annualized production in the basin would total 103 million st, down 0.2% from 2017.
Through the first 32 weeks of the year, US coal production totals an estimated 459 million st, and would total an estimated 748 million st on an annualized basis, down 3.3% from last year.