Indonesian coking coal exports have the potential to increase substantially by 2020 due to a number of large projects underway. Major players like Adaro Metcoal plan to increase production to 5 million tonnes per year by 2020, while others such as Cokal aim to produce over 3 million tonnes annually. However, Indonesian coking coal faces challenges like thin seams, steep dips, quality variability, and long distances to transport coal by truck, barge, and ship.
3. Indonesian Coking
Coal Companies
• Mixture of Australian, Indonesian,
Japanese, Chinese investors;
• Private and listed companies, on
Jakarta, Singapore and Australian
stock exchanges;
• Large and small operators;
• Potential to increase coking
exports from 2.2 mtpa in 2016 to at
least 10 mtpa in 2020.
4. Advantages
• Low Indonesia Rupiah;
• Strong GDP growth and strong
economy;
• Ability to commence with low capex
utilising small trucks and excavators;
• Very low ash coal, low sulphur;
• Direct shipping quality;
• Generally good CSN and fluidity;
• Low stripping ratios;
5. Disadvantages
• Multiple thin seams of coal and
interburden;
• Can be steeply dipping;
• Variability of quality within seams and
areas;
• Long haul distances to the river;
• Long barging distances to the ocean;
• Seasonal constraints with low water
levels in the dry season impacting
barging;
• High VM, low fixed carbon coal, low rank.
6. Major Players
• Adaro Metcoal Companies (ex Indomet, 1.27 bt)
Murawi and other projects;
• Cokal Coal (ASX:CKA), BBM project;
• Itochu investments (MGM 23.5%, SMM 19.9%)
• Marunda Graha Minerals;
• Suprabari Mapanindo Minerals;
• Zamia Metals (ASX:ZGM), PT Borneo Coal;
• Kangaroo Resources (ASX:KRL), Mamahak
Coal;
• Project Orion, large coking coal and anthracite
reserves.
8. Adaro Metcoal
• Very large Indonesian coal company
producing up to 60 mtpa of thermal
and coking coal;
• Acquired Indomet of BHP in 2016
and now plans to commence
production in 2017 increasing to 5
mtpa of coking coal by 2020;
• 1.27 billion tonnes of resources;
• Requires trucking of up to 40km to
the river.
10. Cokal - BBM
• Bumi Barito Mineral Project.
• High quality metallurgical coal project
in Indonesia;
• 266Mt JORC Measured, Indicated &
Inferred Resource– 90% Coking Coal
and 10% PCI;
• Low ash, low sulphur and high
calorific value (Direct Shipping);
• Commencing production in 2018 at 1.5 mtpa
with potential to expand to > 3mtpa
11. Logistics and
Transport - BBM
Coal to be transported in three
phases, accounting for ~
774km from the mine site to
the Java Sea
•55km haul road from mine to
the Barito River
•500km down the Barito River
to the Intermediate Stockpile
Port at Kelanis
•Ocean-going barges to
transport coal ~ 200km to the
open sea anchorage at
Taboneo in the Java Sea
•Coal to be trans-shipped to an
ocean going vessel for the
customer
12. Junior and Private
Miners
• Asmin Koalindo Tuhup – private operating
mine, producing up to 1 mtpa;
• Kangaroo Resources – Mamahak mine
currently on care and maintenance until
coking coal prices improve, capacity of up
to 0.5 mtpa;
• Marunda Graha Minerals – private operating
JV with Itochu, producing up to 1.7 mtpa;
• Multi Tambagjaya Utama – private operating
mine, producing up to 1.2 mtpa;
• Suprabari Mapanindo Mineral – private
oprerating JV with Itochu, producing up to
3.3 mtpa
13. Zamia (ASX:ZGM) –
BPCI
• ASX gold junior in process of
reverse takeover for Borneo Prima
Coal (RTO into Zamia)
• No production and requires small
capital raising to complete the deal
and to move to production of around
1.5 mtpa.
14. Project Orion
• Private company looking to raise
funds to develop large scale coking
coal mine;
• Initial production commencing in
2018 and growing to at least 5 mtpa
by 2020 but will require significant
capital expenditure;
• Potential to truck to the Mahakam
River on the longer term once major
haul road constructed.