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The American Coal Council has partnered with numerous publications to offer ACC members the following publication specials. Please note: These specials are limited to ACC members and first-time subscribers only!

Please also note that the descriptions of each publication were not prepared by the American Coal Council. All information on these trade publications was provided by the publisher.

Argus Media is a specialist publishing company focusing on the energy, transport, and emissions sectors. Argus was established in 1970 as an independent provider of energy pricing, market information, analysis and exclusive data. With offices in key locations around the world, Argus provides a complete range of services for companies requiring reliable and accurate energy pricing and business intelligence. Argus coal products cover everything from US coal transportation to emissions allowances and global coal markets coverage. To view our full list of coal and energy products, visit www.argusmediagroup.com.

Argus Coal Daily - Complete US coal market coverage

Argus Coal Daily is a comprehensive daily market report providing pricing, news and analysis in the North American coal markets and is used as a benchmark for long-term pricing contracts throughout the industry. Argus Coal Daily will also give you understanding of the interaction of coal prices with emissions allowance prices for SO2 and NOX. Argus Coal Daily subscribers exclusively receive Argus Coal Weekly, focused on long-term market fundamentals and the strategic picture in coal markets.

To request a free trial to Argus Coal Daily, click here

Argus Coal Transportation - US coal transportation coverage

Argus Coal Transportation is your roadmap to the US coal transportation system. Argus Coal Transportation is the only source of information on actual coal transportation rates and pricing information. Whether you are moving coal around the US or are focused on the relationship between coal prices and transportation, Argus Coal Transportation provides valuable insight that will keep you up to date on market and industry developments.

To request a free trial to Argus Coal Transportation, click here:

Argus Coal Daily International - International coal market coverage

Argus Coal Daily International devotes its coverage to the broad international coal market, featuring index-quality assessments, coal price analysis, market commentary and the latest global coal news. This vital information is clearly illustrated with easy-to-read tables and graphs, so that subscribers know what the market is trading in an instant.

To request a free trial to Argus Coal Daily International, click here

Argus Air Daily - US emissions, SO2 and NOX pricing

Argus Air Daily is the recognized leader in pricing and market analysis of the US SO2 and NOX markets, as well as emerging markets for renewables and greenhouse gas. Argus Air Daily delivers extensive coverage of new environmental laws and regulations, EPA enforcement activities, state air-quality initiatives and developing clean air technologies.

To request a free trial to Argus Air Daily, click here

For more international coal market coverage, please visit the Argus website.


Energy Publishing, LLC

Hill & Associates' affiliate Energy Publishing features the daily market newsletter, Coal & Energy Price Report, and the weekly industry publication, U.S. Coal Review. COALBASE, another Energy Publishing product, is updated monthly and includes FERC 423 and MSHA production data, along with FOB mine pricing from state regulators, all in an easily accessible electronic format on CD.

The company also produces a monthly petroleum coke newsletter, The Petcoke Report.

Information about all of these products and others offered both by Hill & Associates and by Energy Publishing may be obtained by contacting Hill & Associates at (410) 263-6616 or Energy Publishing at (865) 588-0645. Energy Publishing is offering a $100 discount off of the first year's subscription. Click here to start a free trial subscription.

With 14 offices and 700 employees worldwide, Platts, a Division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is the world’s largest and most authoritative provider of energy information, research and marketing services. Our products range from real-time, Internet-based news and price assessment services to newsletters, market reports, databases, geospatial tools, magazines, conferences, research and consulting services, and energy financial services. Platts’ offerings cover the oil, natural gas, electricity, nuclear power, coal, petrochemical, and metals markets.

Every day, more than $10 billion of trading activity and term contract sales are based on Platts’ benchmark price assessments. Additional information is available at www.platts.com.

Platts is offering a 2 week trial subscription to the following publications:

Expert, exclusive coverage of U.S. coal markets, prices, contracts, transactions, mergers, acquisitions, transportation, utility deregulation, company profiles, and labor trends. Published every week, Coal Outlook provides in-depth strategic market intelligence that keeps industry executives up-to-date on industry ins and outs-who's buying, who's selling, contract terms, pricing, origin, and delivery. Request a trial (please provide contact details)

Global Power Report brings you the latest news on power development and privatizations around the world including new projects, policies, government and utility solicitations, markets, financings and corporate strategies. Every week, Global Power Report will keep you up to speed on new opportunities, market challenges and the activities of your competition. Request a trial (please provide contact details)

Electric Utility Weekprovides news and intelligence for top executives in the electric utility industry worldwide. Our global network of correspondents keeps you on top of industry restructuring, legislative and regulatory developments, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, diversification, privatizations, as well as key corporate and management strategies. Request a trial (please provide contact details)

Receive accurate, sophisticated insight into the international steam and coking coal markets. Get key prices, monthly import/export statistics, trading trends, mine developments, transportation, sales opportunities, petcoke, company and financial news. Request a trial (please provide contact details.)

SNL Energy provides comprehensive intelligence for the energy business through the only integrated news and data service available, including: daily, weekly and monthly newsletters that cover every region and sector of the industry, including coal; 24/7 Web access to news and data via SNL Interactive; and complete datasets and analytics for your entire enterprise from the SNL DataSource for Energy. Not just news. Not just data. News + Data from One source. That's the SNL Energy information solution. To find out more, visit www.snlenergy.com.

Coal Report is SNL Energy's publication for coal insiders. Written by three former editors of Coal Outlook with over 30 years of experience in the business, Coal Report goes beyond the OTC market to focus on the news that matters most to the industry. Every weekly issue provides the best available coverage of production, contracts, companies, financials, permitting, coal-fueled generation, emissions regulation, new mines, transportation, haul rates and more. For a FREE trial subscription, click here: https://www.snl.com/product/offers/crwtrial.asp?promo=2B52


The McCloskey Group Publications

The McCloskey group is the world’s premier source of news, analysis and data on the international coal industry. Our global team focuses solely on the coal industry, bringing a unique brand of intelligent journalism to the market. We not only report the news, we tell our readers what it means for them, and we do so in an authoritative and reasonable style. No other publisher has our range of key contacts throughout the coal industry, built over 20 years of coal reporting. Details of our publications are listed below; in addition our consultancy team provides tailor-made commercial support to the world coal industry.

McCloskey’s Coal Report

McCloskey’s Coal Report - the premier information service for the international coal industry, providing invaluable comprehensive news, analysis and research for today's fast-paced global industry. As well as providing detailed reports on individual steam coal, coking coal, PCI and coke trades for spot and term contracts. MCR logs steam coal “FOB” prices from all the major exporting ports and CIF prices in the principle importing zones. We provide exactly what you need - unrivalled, comprehensive worldwide news and data on the coal markets, volumes and prices.This publication is an unrivalled source of facts, figures, news and informed opinion, McCloskey’s Coal Report is required reading for anyone who is involved in the international coal market. (Published every two weeks)

For further information please contact Christian.griffiths@mccloskeycoal.com

McCloskey’s Coal Report and Fax

In addition to receiving The McCloskey’s Coal Report you should also receive the weekly McCloskey’s fax, which provides as extensive a coverage of world coal markets as is humanly possible to deliver. It focuses on time-sensitive market details and price levels throughout the coal chain arriving on your desk at the end of each working week. (Published weekly)

For further information please contact Christian.griffiths@mccloskeycoal.com

McCloskey’s Coal report, Fax and Newswire

In addition to receiving The McCloskey’s Coal Report and fax, you will also receive daily news which can be delivered directly to you by e-mail, to your desk top and to your Blackberry, Smart Phone or via a search of our website.

You receive Newswire in two forms, they are:
- The Intra Daily Newswire Service through which you will receive our news as soon as we publish it, throughout the day, via our newswire alerts. This is also update online immediately.
- The Newswire Daily Round-up where you will receive an email of all the news at the end of the day. This is also updated online immediately.

*Both of the above New Wires Services are available with most PDA, Blackberry and Smart Phone Devices

For further information please contact Christian.griffiths@mccloskeycoal.com

McCloskey’s Steam Coal Forecast

Steam Coal Forecaster – a quarterly analysis and forecast of the demand for and supply of steam coal over the next 18 months. This is the only publication providing quarterly short-term analysis and predictions of international steam coal trade and prices. Each issue provides an in-depth, country-by-country, study of trends in steam and coal and PCI supply and demand. It highlights developments that are likely to bring significant changes to supply and demand patterns, as well as to prices.

Steam Coal Forecaster - gives both buyers and suppliers a guide to the most likely conditions under which they can expect to be working in the coming 18 months including:

  • Supply and demand analysis for consumers - an unbiased view of the latest steam coal supply and demand figures, with predictions on which can suppliers will meet their coal requirement and on which way prices will go.
  • Marketing pointers for producers – learn where to target your product and to ensure that you get the best possible deal every time.
  • Markets Information for traders – who need to up-to-date supply/demand information together with a concise understanding of the markets direction
  • Trading analysis for merchant banks and stockbrokers – to determine the financial viability of potential coal producers and the stability of current partners and as an invaluable pointer to the future prosperity of the companies that they study.

Steam Coal Forecaster is published quarterly

For further information please contact Christian.griffiths@mccloskeycoal.com

McCloskey’s Coal “UK”

Coal “UK” provides a unique insight into the Atlantic market’s biggest importer. Coal UK is easily the best source of news and analysis of the UK industry and its customers. Coal professionals have relied on Coal UK since 1992 and the readership has remained remarkably loyal to Coal UK through that period. Each issue includes coverage of:

  • Mining – activity reports monitoring deep and surface mined output by region, productivity levels, new mine projects and pit closures.
  • Markets – generation, industrial and household markets for coal, along with activity in markets for rival fuels.
  • Price and Trading – coal purchased by generators the steel and cement industries and all other industries users.
  • Transportation – whether short sea, deep sea, rail barge or road haulage, all forms of freight are covered along with port developments
  • Government – critical analysis of trends in policy, its likely effects on the industry and on its customers
  • Advances in technology – including initiatives to develop cleaner coal technologies and the industry’s response to environmental pressures
  • Corporate development – the fortunes of companies throughout the UK coal chain, including producers, wholesalers, traders and customers.
  • Imports – tracking events and trends that are shaping buying and consumption patterns.
  • Tenders – contract news as it is announced, plus successful bids.
  • Environmental reports – how are the key players performing against the environment Agency’s and Defra’s targets?
  • Other Fuels – market events in the gas and oil

Coal UK is published monthly

For further information please contact Christian.griffiths@mccloskeycoal.com

McCloskey’s Metallurgical Quarterly

A quarterly analysis and forecast of the demands for and supply of metallurgical coal.

McCloskey’s Metallurgical Coal Quarterly was launched in June 2002 in response to years of requests from the coal community. Published quarterly it provides market analysis and both short term and medium term predictions of the international metallurgical coal trade in a unique format. Each issue includes:

  • Executive summary – summary of the main conclusions of the quarterly forecast with respect to supply, demand and price developments over the 36 month forecast period.
  • News review – a news in brief type review of relevant global news including iron and steel industry capacity changes, coal mine capacity developments, coal market developments, ocean freight developments, steel market price changes.
  • Consumer profile – each issue will contain a profile of a major consumer, including consumption rates, consumption forecast and a detailed review of relevant coal and coke consuming plants.
  • Supplier profile – each issue will contain a profile of a metallurgical coal supplier including relevant statistics and coal quality specifications, coal reserve estimates and mine life expectations.
  • Demand side analysis – a narrative to accompany the regional summaries for each major stage of the MCQ demand model from economic outlooks to consumption production and trade.
  • Supply side analysis – country-by- country data on the main seaborne exporters.
  • Outlook for prices and freight – including data gathered on the spot market for both metallurgical and steam coal prices and a view on freight over the forecast period based on the analysis of leading shipping sources.

McCloskey's Metallurgical Coal Quarterly is published quarterly.

For further information please contact Christian.griffiths@mccloskeycoal.com

McCloskey’s UK Power Focus

UK Powerfocus is the definitive monthly source of news analysis and data on all aspects of the UK’s power industry from fuel supply to distribution.

UK Powerfocus also publishes monthly power station outputs for all of the major power stations in England, Wales and Scotland, allowing readers to keep up to date on who is doing what in the market.

This publication now incorporates a weekly news service called Powerfocus Plus, which is free to subscribers and provides major news developments on the European power sector.

The weekly publication UK Powerfocus plus is sent out every Monday evening via e-mail. Its aim is to give subscribers regular market updates, whilst retaining the quality of analysis & data.

On-line information

  • Archived publications,
  • News Story search,
  • Pricing & Data shown in publication
  • As well as providing

Hard copy information

  • Price reporting and market commentary
  • Analysis of all major developments
  • Coverage of NETA modifications and the move towards BETTA
  • Interviews with senior industry figures
  • A full round-up of the month's news
  • Company profiles
  • UK and European power interactions
  • Generation fuel prices
  • Inter-connector flows
  • Renewable Obligation Certificate prices
  • Spark spreads and dark spreads
  • End user price trends

Also included in the UK Powerfocus publication is Power Station Tracker – This publication, will cover new building projects, capacity, the developer and the fuel type. (This publication is only available on-line)

For further information please contact Christian.griffiths@mccloskeycoal.com

China Coal Monthly

This publication is a joint venture between The McCloskey Group and Xinhua Infolink and is produced monthly.

The report bears the hallmark of all McClosky publications, including lots of prices and tonnage data, all meticulously researched and covering a broad span of all the differing aspect of the Chinese coal industry. (Published monthly)

For further information please contact Christian.griffiths@mccloskeycoal.com

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