According to data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics, Romania’s production of net coal amounted to 5.855 million tonnes of oil equivalent in 2009, that is a drop by 11.8%YoY compared to the previous year.

According to a statistic made public by British Petroleum, Romania coal production totaled 6.5 million toe in 2008 down by 3.2% from 2007, and represented 0.2% of the world production.

As regards consumption, it reached 7.7 million toe and represented 0.2 percent of the global consumption. In end-2009, Romania had coal reserves of 422 million tonnes.

(Sourced from http://www.financiarul.ro)