Analysis

India's West Coast CFR average prices for high and mid-sulfur petcoke increased in the first weeks of May 2017, according to CW Research's India Petcoke CFR Price Assessment update for mid-month May.

The average cost of burning high sulfur petcoke is at a premium of over 14 percent in mid-May 2017, on a mmBTU basis, when compared to Richard Bays coal for West Coast. In the previous month, the discount rate was 15+ percent.

Over 50 percent of the total petcoke volume imported by Indian firms throughout April 2017 came from the United States.

The mid-May update of the India Petcoke CFR Price Assessment also includes market and shipping updates, as well as a pricing forecast for the next three months.

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