Arch Coal, Inc. Announces Extension of Private Debt Exchange Offers

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 17, 2015  -- Arch Coal, Inc. ("Arch") (ACI) today announced the extension of its (i) pending private offer to exchange (the "2020 Exchange Offer") new 6.25% Trust Certificates due 2021 (the "Trust Certificates") and a cash payment for any and all of its outstanding 7.25% Senior Notes due 2020 (the "2020 Notes") and (ii) pending concurrent private offer to exchange (the "Concurrent Exchange Offer" and, together with the 2020 Exchange Offer, the "Exchange Offers") Trust Certificates, 8.00% Senior Secured Notes due 2022 (the "New 2022 Secured Notes") and 12.00% Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2023 (the "New 2023 Secured Notes") for its outstanding 7.000% Senior Notes due 2019 ("Old 7.000% 2019 Notes"), 9.875% Senior Notes due 2019 ("Old 9.875% 2019 Notes") and 7.250% Senior Notes due 2021 ("Old 7.250% 2021 Notes" and, together with the Old 7.000% 2019 Notes and the Old 9.875% 2019 Notes, the "Old Notes").

SinoCoking Aboveground Syngas Facility Commences Operations

PINGDINGSHAN, China, Oct. 20, 2014  -- SinoCoking Coal and Coke Chemical Industries, Inc. (SCOK), a producer of clean energy products located in Henan Province, today announced that as of the morning of October 18 China time its aboveground facility for the conversion of carbon dioxide into clean-burning syngas had begun operations and was producing and transporting syngas to customers in and around Pingdingshan.

The facility is currently operating at approximately 60 percent of capacity, said the company, and over the next 20 days will ramp up to its full capacity of 25,000 cubic meters of syngas per hour.

SinoCoking Announces Fiscal 2014 Results

PINGDINGSHAN, China, Sept. 29, 2014 -- SinoCoking Coal and Coke Chemical Industries, Inc. (SCOK), a vertically-integrated coal and coke processor, today announced that, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the company had net income of $990,582, or $0.05 per share, on revenue of $50,267,693, compared to net income of $1,047,693, or $0.05 per share, on revenue of $66,686,301 for the prior fiscal year ended June 30, 2013. Basic and diluted weighted average number of shares of common stock for both fiscal 2014 and 2013 was 21,121,372.