US weekly coal production was estimated to be 10.5 million st for the week ended March 30, down 6.6% from the previous week and down 26.3% from the year-ago week, US Energy Information Administration data showed Thursday. This was the fifth week in a row of decreases from the year-ago week, and was the largest year-on-year drop since the final week of 2017, when output fell 28.2%. Across the board, the four major basins dropped week on week and year on year, experiencing their lowest production levels in the first quarter of the year. From the five-year average of almost 16 million st produced in the thirteenth week of the year, 2019 production was at a deficit of 34%. In Q1, coal production fell 3.8% from the previous year. Production in Wyoming and Montana, largely […]