{"id":10226,"date":"2012-04-24T16:29:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/edp-buys-2-4-mln-t-coal-for-201314-at-3-below-api2\/"},"modified":"2012-04-24T16:29:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:29:32","slug":"edp-buys-2-4-mln-t-coal-for-201314-at-3-below-api2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/edp-buys-2-4-mln-t-coal-for-201314-at-3-below-api2\/","title":{"rendered":"EDP buys 2.4 mln T coal for 2013\/14 at $3 below API2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jacqueline Cowhig<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, April 24<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Energias de Portugal<br \/>\nhas bought a total of 2.4 million tonnes of mostly Colombian and<br \/>\nsome U.S. thermal coal for delivery in 2013 and 2014 at a<br \/>\ndiscount of just over $3.00 a tonne to the API2 index, sources<br \/>\nat the utility and traders said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Two contracts were awarded for 1.2 million tonnes in total<br \/>\neach, one to a Colombian producer and the other to a trader.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spain and Portugal saw strong coal consumption for power<br \/>\ngeneration through 2011 and this is set to continue this year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>EDP, which buys coal for plants in both Spain and Portugal,<br \/>\nis expected to burn 5 million tonnes of coal in 2012 and will<br \/>\nissue spot tenders for top-up tonnage, having secured baseload<br \/>\nsupply.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jacqueline Cowhig LONDON, April 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Energias de Portugal has bought a total of 2.4 million tonnes of mostly Colombian and some U.S. thermal coal for delivery in 2013 and 2014 at a discount of just over $3.00 a tonne to the API2 index, sources at the utility and traders said. Two contracts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}