Analysis

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

The average cost of burning high sulfur petcoke is at a premium of around 24 percent in mid-July 2017, on an mmBTU basis, when compared to Richard Bays coal for West Coast. In the previous month, the discount rate was 23+ percent.

Almost half of the total petcoke volume imported by Indian firms throughout July 2017 came from Saudi Arabia.

The mid-July 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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