KOLKATA: Coal India has almost achieved its e-auction target for the current fiscal, and is looking at offering additional supplies.

At the start of the year, it targeted eauction sales of 120 million tonnes of which it has already achieved 113 million tonnes by December, officials said.

State-owned Coal India Ltd , the world’s largest coal miner, is expected to raise its production to 660 million tonnes in 2017/18 fiscal year, the coal secretary said on Friday.

The miner is expected to achieve its 2016/17 production target of 575 million tonnes and aims to raise output to 1 billion tonnes by 2020, Susheel Kumar told television news channel CNBC-TV18 in an interview.

Calcutta, Jan. 4: PSU Coal India is likely to stick to its production target this fiscal in the face of stagnating production and poor offtake.

Union coal and power minister Piyush Goyal said while his ministry was closely monitoring the demand-supply situation, targets are expected to remain firm.

The supply of coal to the power sector by the state–owned CIL saw a fall of 6 per cent at 33.7 million tonnes last month even as the government claimed in October that the demand for the fossil fuel has started picking up.

The despatch of dry fuel by Coal India Ltd (CIL) to the power sector in November last year stood at 35.9 million tonnes (MT), according to government data.

Coal India’s (CIL) stock slumped to a six-month low on Wednesday, closing at 292.25, down 4.42%. CIL, the world’s largest coal producer, registered its lowest quarterly profit for the July-September period since its listing.

The company’s net profit for the quarter dropped by 77.4% to R600.4 crore from R2,654.34 crore a year ago. The company’s net income from operations has gone down by 7.8% to R16,212.5 in 2016 from R17,489.8 in 2015.

Calcutta, Dec. 13: Public sector miner Coal India's September-quarter consolidated net profit took a hit as it made a Rs 710.64-crore provision to cover for the salaries and wages of its employees.

Net profit during the quarter stood at Rs 600.17 crore compared with Rs 2,654.34 crore a year ago.

Coal India (CIL), the world's largest coal miner, seems to have lost its emphasis on underground mines whose production as well as mine productivity has declined over the past decade. Instead, CIL's production results indicate a focus on upping the mine productivity and increasing the production contribution of opencast mines to the consolidated output from 86.66% in 2005-06 to 93.73% in 2015-16.

State-owned CIL is examining opportunities to export coal with high ash content or high grade fossil fuel to the neighbouring nations, Parliament was informed today.

“CIL (Coal India) is exploring opportunities to export Indian coal having high ash content or high grade coal to the neighbouring countries as the demand for such type of coal is comparatively less in the domestic market,” Minister of State of Coal, Power, New and Renewable Energy and Mines Piyush Goyal said in a reply to the Rajya Sabha.

KOLKATA: Coal India sold 7 million tonnes of coal, or 35% of the quantity on offer in an e-auction, at a floor price that was 20% higher than listed prices for non-power users. Traders as well as power producers with or without supply commitments from Coal India were allowed to bid in the auction.

“Most of the coal was sold near the floor price and we have been able to sell 7 million tonnes till now. The e-auction is still on and we hope to sell the entire volume of 20 million tonnes soon,” said a senior Coal India official.

KOLKATA: Armed with a product mix of high and low energy coal, Coal India (CIL) is all set to take advantage of a 60 per cent rise in international coal prices this year and has started targeting coastal power companies’ that heavily depend on imported coal.

“As international prices stand today, a mix of high and low grade coal is available at a substantial discount than imported prices. It would be economically viable for these coastal firms to buy go for coal supplied by CIL. In most cases the landed price of imported coal is higher than coal supplied by CIL at ports,” a senior CIL official said.

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