Coal reference price for September set at $69.69

Monday, September 15 2014 - 12:45 AM WIB

By Romel S. Gurky

The government announced its coal reference price (HBA) for September 2014 at US$69.69 per ton FOB vessel, lower than $70.29 per ton set in August 2014.

The HBA is the price cited for the delivery period of September 1-30. Price for term contract is the average HBA over the past three months, the Directorate General of Coal and Minerals said in a statement on Monday.

Coal price reference is based on coal with CV (GAR) of 6,322 kcal/kg.

HBA is calculated based on the monthly average of four international coal indices: Indonesian coal index/ ICI 1, Platts-1, New Castle Export Index and Newcastle Global Coal Index.

No BRAND Specification Price (USD/Ton)
CV (kcal/kg GAR) TM (%, ar) TS (%, ar) Ash (%,ar)
1 Gunung Bayan I 7.000 10.00 1.00 15.00 74.69
2 Prima Coal 6.700 12.00 0.60 5.00 75.45
3 Pinang 6150 6.200 14.50 0.60 5.50 68.12
4 Indominco IM_East 5.700 17.50 1.63 4.80 57.11
5 Melawan Coal 5.400 22.50 0.40 5.00 55.74
6 Envirocoal 5.000 26.00 0.10 1.20 52.65
7 Jorong J-1 4.400 32.00 0.25 4.15 42.39
8 Ecocoal 4.200 35.00 0.18 3.90 38.82

Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak

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