{"id":10464,"date":"2012-05-03T20:32:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T18:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/us-coal-fills-indias-petcoke-supply-gap-traders\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T20:32:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T18:32:26","slug":"us-coal-fills-indias-petcoke-supply-gap-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/us-coal-fills-indias-petcoke-supply-gap-traders\/","title":{"rendered":"US coal fills India&#8217;s petcoke supply gap -traders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Petcoke scarcity encourages replacement with coal<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* S.African, Indonesian coal won&#8217;t be displaced<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jacqueline Cowhig<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. high-sulphur thermal coal,<br \/>\nwhich is flowing into every possible pocket of global demand,<br \/>\nwill replace up to 2 million tonnes a year of petroleum coke<br \/>\nthat has been imported by India&#8217;s cement sector, Indian traders<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Indian cement companies Shree Cement and Ultratech<br \/>\n have taken one cargo of U.S. high-sulphur coal and<br \/>\nsmaller manufacturers have bought parcels from stocks at ports.<br \/>\nFresh purchases are currently being negotiated, the traders<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s coal imports are set to grow rapidly to over 100<br \/>\nmillion tonnes of thermal coal this year, most of it from<br \/>\nIndonesia and South Africa destined for power generators. The<br \/>\ncement sector is a smaller but significant consumer of imports.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some Indian end-users are likely to turn to the very<br \/>\nhigh-sulphur Illinois Basin coals to take advantage of their<br \/>\nlower prices and greater supply than petroleum coke, the traders<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The power plants cannot use this very high sulphur coal.<br \/>\nThey have old boilers which can&#8217;t use it, so I don&#8217;t see it<br \/>\ndisplacing other origins there, only for cement,&#8221; said an<br \/>\nimporter supplying both the power and cement sectors.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Petroleum coke, also known as petcoke, is produced by oil<br \/>\nrefiners from the heaviest, highest-sulphur crudes. It is a<br \/>\nhigher-energy, higher-sulphur fuel than most thermal coal.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Petcoke scarcity encourages replacement with coal * S.African, Indonesian coal won&#8217;t be displaced By Jacqueline Cowhig LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. high-sulphur thermal coal, which is flowing into every possible pocket of global demand, will replace up to 2 million tonnes a year of petroleum coke that has been imported by India&#8217;s cement [&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-10464","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\/10464","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=10464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}