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The US coal industry in 2015: the impact on buyers

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 Electric power, steel, refining, manufacturing, chemical and pharmaceutical industries that depend on coal are concerned about the health of the market and wonder how another round of new-era mine closures and consolidation will change competition or diversity of the commodity they depend on. In this insight, we discuss how this "new normal" may evolve, for coal buyers.

Table of contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Consolidation fears: for sellers too
  • Consolidation as survival
  • Market concentration of the coal industry
  • Self-managing supply risk
    • Changing contractual patterns
    • A push for contract flexibility
    • CONSOL's new flex-fuel contract: will it work?
  • Conclusion
    • HHI Explained
    • Case Example

Tables and charts

This report includes 7 images and tables including:

  • 2015 Thermal Coal Production cuts/delays announced in 2015 YTD (Mst)
  • 2014 Coal industry concentration and HHI based on MSHA production
  • 2014 Coal industry concentration of large producers and with Murray/Foresight merger
  • EIA Contract deliveries
  • EIA Delivered coal prices
  • Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI) senario example table
  • Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI) senario example chart

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