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Weekly Coal Production
Data for week ended September 29, 2012 | Release Date: October 04, 2012 | Next Release: October 11, 2012
For the week ended September 29, 2012:
U.S. coal production totaled approximately 19.1 million short tons (mmst)
This production estimate is 1.3 percent lower than last week's estimate and 14.7 percent lower than the production estimate in the comparable week in 2011
Coal production east of the Mississippi River totaled 8.1 mmst
Coal production west of the Mississippi River totaled 11.0 mmst
U.S. year-to-date coal production totaled 764.9 mmst, 5.4 percent lower than the comparable year-to-date coal production in 2011
As of the week ending September 15, 2012, all of 2011 production has been revised to match the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) final 2011 production and second quarter 2012 production has been revised to match MSHA production. These changes are present in the Revisions/Archives section, and are also reflected in the "Current Weekly Estimates" and "Current Monthly Estimates" tables in the year to date and 52 weeks ended totals. These changes are not reflected in the two Original Estimates tables.
EIA revises its first-round weekly estimates of State-level coal production using Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) quarterly coal production data. After revision, EIA's State-level weekly numbers summed for the quarter, match the MSHA data.
Data for 2011 through June 2012 are revised to match MSHA. Data for July 2012 through September 2012 are preliminary EIA estimates.
| State | Month ended August 2012 | Month ended August 2011 | January thru August 2012 Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 1,646 | 1,655 | 13,494 |
| Alaska | 189 | 178 | 1,456 |
| Arizona | 653 | 735 | 5,429 |
| Arkansas | 7 | 10 | 46 |
| Colorado | 2,941 | 2,722 | 19,559 |
| Illinois | 3,187 | 3,654 | 30,135 |
| Indiana | 3,138 | 3,380 | 24,835 |
| Kansas | 4 | 3 | 16 |
| Kentucky | 8,852 | 9,897 | 66,211 |
| Louisiana | 288 | 373 | 2,552 |
| Maryland | 148 | 284 | 1,448 |
| Mississippi | 292 | 181 | 1,941 |
| Missouri | 38 | 41 | 295 |
| Montana | 3,944 | 4,065 | 25,242 |
| New Mexico | 1,865 | 1,750 | 13,918 |
| North Dakota | 2,486 | 2,463 | 18,200 |
| Ohio | 2,377 | 2,464 | 19,061 |
| Oklahoma | 93 | 96 | 726 |
| Pennsylvania | 4,974 | 5,373 | 39,161 |
| Tennessee | 124 | 158 | 958 |
| Texas | 3,392 | 4,407 | 26,483 |
| Utah | 1,485 | 1,735 | 11,414 |
| Virginia | 1,657 | 1,880 | 13,591 |
| West Virginia | 10,910 | 11,202 | 84,226 |
| Wyoming | 36,075 | 36,793 | 264,377 |
U.S. monthly coal production for August 2012
thousand short tons
| Data Tables * | Format | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current Weekly Estimates | ||||
| Current Monthly Estimates | ||||
| Original estimates | ||||
| 1st week in 2002 — current week | ||||
| January 2002 — current month | ||||
| * The current weekly estimates and current monthly estimates tables contain data revised to the most recent MSHA data available as of the posting date of the table | ||||