每日能源新闻----王朝末路，煤产大亨博地宣布破产

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王朝末路：博地能源宣布破产

这是一个历史性的一刻，全球最大的私营煤矿公司于近日宣布破产。

总部位于圣·路易斯的博地能源早于一月前已发布了破产警报。本周三正式的书面报告也已经拿上桌面。在办理剩下的一系列破产手续的过程中，博地的矿区仍将继续生产。根据博地能源递交的法律文件，其已经从融资机构抵押了8000万美金的资产。

博地能源新闻在发布会中说，通过今天的举措，我们将找到一个在法庭上解决博地能源遗留的大量债务上的重担的方案，在这个整个行业面临史上最大的挑战的时刻。这个过程会让我们学会增强资产的流动性以及减少负债，接下来的几年中我们将在完成的关键性技术进步的条件下，建立为未来和长期稳定发展的坚实基础。

博地能源公司2011年在希腊曾经经历了一次戏剧性的狂跌。当时，在投入了51亿美元收购澳洲主要产煤资产后，煤矿的价格一路狂崩。随着煤矿需求的停滞不前，博地能源逐渐进入了一个债台高筑的境地。在美国本土方面，更加优惠的天然气以及环境法规的限制导致煤矿在发电部门的地位逐步下跌。而国际上，中国经济增长速度的放缓大幅减少了供能行业和冶金行业的煤矿需求。中国对钢材需求的减少，以及逐步从煤矿事业转型以减少空气污染的政策方案，造成了这个世界上煤矿产能最大的国家只剩下远远少于之前预计的煤矿市场。

近几年，美国的煤矿出口也在递减，相比于2014年，美国在2015年的煤出口量下降了23%。而博地能源却在怀俄明州接管了大型的煤矿开采事业，结果导致其囤积了大量的煤矿却无法找到出口，为此次破产也算埋下了伏笔。

博地能源的破产崩断了大型煤产公司的破产的最后一道防线，至此，美国阿奇煤矿，阿尔法自然资源公司，爱国者煤矿公司，和沃尔特能源公司以及今天提及的博地能源公司都已阵亡。

By Charles Kennedy of Oilprice.com

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End Of An Era:Peabody Declares Bankruptcy

In a sign of the times, the world’s largest privatesector coal miner just went bankrupt.

The St. Louis-basedPeabody Energy Corp. warned a month ago that it was considering filing forChapter 11 bankruptcy, and on Wednesday they made it official.Peabody’s mines will continue to operate uninterrupted through the bankruptcyprocess. According to Peabody’s court filing, it has obtained $800 million indebtor-in-possession financing facilities.

“Through today’s action, we will seek an in-court solution to Peabody’ssubstantial debt burden amid a historically challenged industry backdrop. Thisprocess enables us to strengthen liquidity and reduce debt, build upon thesignificant operational achievements we’ve made in recent years and lay thefoundation for long-term stability and success in the future,” the company saidin a press release.

Peabody has suffered a dramaticfall from grace, after paying $5.1billion to acquire major coal-producing assets in Australia in 2011. Sincethen, coal prices have collapsed, coal demand has ground to a halt, andPeabody’s debt has piled up. In the U.S., cheap naturalgas and environmental regulation has led to coal’s downfall inthe electric power sector. Abroad, a slowdown in China has hurt both thermaland metallurgical coal demand. China’s demand for steel has slowed and it isundertaking a shift away from coal because of air pollution, leaving theworld’s top coal producers with a vastly smaller market than they had expectedjust a few years ago.

U.S. coal exports have declined inrecent years, leaving Peabody – who oversees large mining operations in Wyoming– with too much coal and not enough demand. U.S. coal exports fell by 23percent in 2015 compared to a year earlier.

Peabody’s bankruptcy is the latest in a string ofbankruptcies from major coal producers, including Arch Coal, Alpha NaturalResources, Patriot Coal, and Walter Energy.

By Charles Kennedy of Oilprice.com