CoalSense Express™
$750
Single COA review, 48-hour turnaround
Operational and commercial coal-risk review
Find the coal deal's fatal flaw before it becomes your balance-sheet problem.
Clear Creek Advisory helps buyers, traders, operators, lenders, insurers, and counsel identify operational and commercial exposure, production reality gaps, coal-quality variance, shipment risk, and hidden deal problems before capital or cargo value is at risk.
Rapid Risk Screen
Go / No-Go Coal Asset & Shipment Review
Operating & liability exposure
Safety performance trends, repeat operational issues, shutdown exposure, and cost-to-cure risk
Physical mining reality
seam, geology, roof, ventilation, haulage, equipment
Coal-quality and contract variance
COA/spec comparison, blend risk, penalty exposure
Commercial consequence
downtime, capex, cargo claims, price adjustment, EBITDA haircut
CoalSense™ Mine-to-Buyer Coal Quality Intelligence
Understand the Coal Behind the Paperwork
CoalSense™ compares coal quality information from mine origin, preparation plant data, seller specifications, load-port COAs, independent inspection reports, vessel documents, discharge-port sampling, and buyer receiving data to identify potential quality variance, sampling conflicts, moisture movement, specification issues, penalty exposure, rejection risk, and commercial dispute indicators.
CoalSense Chain Review™
Starting at $2,500
Full mine-to-buyer variance analysis, including at-sea trade risk
CoalSense Dispute Support™
Custom Scope
Claims, arbitration, and legal matters
Specialized review
At-Sea Coal Trade Risk
CoalSense™ also supports coal cargoes bought, sold, assigned, or novated after vessel loading. At-sea trades can create additional potential risk because the buyer may be relying on prior COAs, load-port sampling, incomplete chain-of-custody records, unclear inspection rights, or quality data generated before title transfer.
Findings depend on available documents and contract terms. CoalSense flags potential issues for review — additional review recommended before relying on prior quality data or payment timing.
CoalSense flags potential issues involving
- Quality custody gaps
- Load-port vs discharge-port variance
- Sampling control mismatch
- Moisture movement during voyage
- Payment before quality confirmation
- Rejection rights after title transfer
- Demurrage or deviation exposure
- Counterparty and cargo ownership chain uncertainty
Shipping & chartering
Coal Cargo Delay & Demurrage Risk Support
For shipowners, charterers, operators, claims teams, coal traders, and buyers dealing with coal cargo delays, moisture questions, sampling disputes, terminal delays, NOR/laytime issues, cargo acceptance concerns, and demurrage exposure.
CoalSense also supports coal cargo delay reviews by screening COAs, specifications, sampling reports, laytime facts, and demurrage-risk indicators.
Private Equity buyers
Commodity traders
Coal operators
Insurance carriers
Law firms
Lenders and credit teams
Insights & Commentary
Coal quality, shipping, and transaction insight
Practical commentary on cargo quality, demurrage risk, met coal markets, mine diligence, and seaborne coal trade from Clear Creek Advisory.
Cargo & Demurrage RiskMay 20, 2026
Understanding Demurrage Risk in Coal Shipping
Demurrage risk in coal shipping rarely starts at the claim stage. It builds from fixture terms, port performance, cargo acceptance, and documentation gaps long before laytime expires.
Read articleCargo & Demurrage RiskMay 18, 2026
What Causes Coal Cargo Rejection at Port?
Cargo rejection at port is rarely a single-lab surprise. It usually reflects specification tolerance, sampling method, transit exposure, and how contract rejection language was drafted.
Read articleCoalSense Tools
CoalSense Tools
Practical calculators and screening tools for coal traders, charterers, operators, buyers, and industrial consumers.
Demurrage Exposure Calculator
Estimate preliminary demurrage or despatch exposure from allowed laytime, time used, and daily rates.
COA vs Specification Checker
Compare certificate of analysis results against buyer specification limits for ash, sulfur, moisture, and other key parameters.
Cargo Risk Score Calculator
Screen vessel delay, port congestion, coal quality, and contract indicators into a preliminary cargo risk score.
Experience
Operator insight. Transaction discipline. Commercial coal judgment.
Clear Creek Advisory is led by a coal industry professional with more than 25 years of combined experience spanning underground coal operations, coal quality evaluation, operational risk assessment, and mine-site review. The focus is practical: what can hurt the transaction, the shipment, the mine, or the buyer?
15+ years underground coal operations
11+ years federal mine health and safety oversight—applied to operating risk, cost exposure, and diligence for buyers, lenders, and counsel
Direct experience evaluating operational risk indicators and performance patterns across mines and deals
Focus on real-world vs paper production gaps
Coal-quality, shipment, and commercial-risk review capability
What we do
Boardroom clarity. Mine-site reality.
The work product is built for managing directors, counsel, underwriters, lenders, operators, traders, and buyers who need a direct answer: what can hurt the deal, how badly, and what should be checked next?
Fatal Flaw Due Diligence
Rapid operational reviews for coal acquisitions: roof, ribs, ventilation, haulage, production reality, operating and liability exposure, and hidden capex.
Operational & Commercial Risk Review
Operational and commercial review of operating history, performance trends, incident patterns, production risk indicators, and deal-level risk factors.
EBITDA Impact Analysis
Translate operational hazards into financial consequences: downtime, capex catch-up, penalty exposure, insurance impacts, and deal repricing.
Technical Incident & Operational Review
Independent technical review for counsel, insurers, lenders, and operators involving incidents, operational disputes, contract and liability disputes, or commercial-risk evaluation.
CoalSense
CoalSense Preliminary Demurrage Risk Screen
Screen vessel waiting time, port congestion, coal quality variance, and contract exposure from the information you already have—then flag what could hurt the deal and estimate demurrage exposure.
This preliminary screen is informational and does not replace a CCA expert review.
- Vessel, port, berth, and queue screening
- COA, spec, and contract keyword review
- Weekend Cargo Risk Screen PDF export
- CCA review request from screening results
Preliminary Risk Screen
What Could Hurt This Deal?
Enter vessel and port details, upload COA or contract files, and receive a demurrage risk score with red flags, recommended actions, and a Weekend Cargo Risk Screen report.
Vessel delay and port congestion risk
Coal quality and contract red flags
Demurrage exposure estimate
CoalSense-assisted review
Met coal quality and commercial-risk review powered by CoalSense.
CoalSense is used internally by Clear Creek Advisory to support source-traceable COA review, specification comparison, blend-risk screening, and commercial exposure analysis for metallurgical coal transactions.
Founding pilot offer
CoalSense-Assisted Met Coal Quality Review
Initial paid pilot reviews are available for anonymized, historical, or redacted COAs and spec sheets.
Starting at $750
Includes report preparation and a 30-minute review call.
Why Pay Clear Creek?
Experienced coal judgment—not a generic consultant report.
Clients are not paying for boilerplate diligence language. They are paying for experienced coal judgment that can identify deal, shipment, operating, quality, and liability risks before money is committed or a dispute escalates.
Field-tested coal judgment
More than 25 years across underground coal operations, coal quality review, safety/operational oversight, and mine-site reality checks.
Finds practical deal risk
Flags the issues that hurt transactions: production gaps, roof/rib/ventilation problems, quality variance, penalty exposure, hidden capex, and shipment rejection risk.
Translates technical problems into money risk
Clear findings tied to downtime, repricing, claim exposure, cost-to-cure, EBITDA impact, and go/no-go decisions.
Independent second set of eyes
Useful before acquisitions, coal purchases, shipment disputes, lender review, insurance review, or counsel-led diligence.
CoalSense-assisted review
Documents are reviewed using human coal expertise supported by CoalSense-assisted comparison, extraction, and risk-screening tools.
What you get
- Focused written findings
- Key risk drivers
- Practical next-step recommendations
- Uploaded document reference ID
- Optional 30-minute review call
Clear Creek Advisory provides commercial and operational coal-risk review. This is not legal advice, engineering certification, reserve certification, or a formal title opinion.
Document intake
Upload COAs, buyer specs, shipment reports, contracts, or mine documents for review.
Submitting this form creates a confidential review request and allows CCA to scope the appropriate CoalSense review level.
File upload note: Please keep each file under 4 MB. For larger COA/spec/contract packages, email JW directly at jw@clearcreekadvisoryllc.com and CCA will provide alternate upload instructions.
Your details
Enter your name and email, add at least one file, then submit.
Files upload securely to Clear Creek. You will receive a reference ID when submission is complete.
Email JW directlyCOA and buyer/spec sheet comparison
Ash, sulfur, VM, moisture, HGI, FSI, phosphorus, CSR/CRI review
Blend-risk and coke-quality screening
Commercial exposure and penalty-risk estimate
Source-traceable report with OCR confidence notes
30-minute review call for findings and next steps
Built for commercial decisions
The goal is simple: help buyers, traders, and coal suppliers identify where a coal deal, shipment, blend, or spec sheet can go wrong before it becomes a penalty, rejection, dispute, or coke-quality problem.
Typical intake documents
COAs, buyer specifications, shipment samples, mine or prep plant reports, loadout records, contract quality clauses, and historical quality data.
Demo
See CoalSense Review in Action
Watch a brief demo showing how CoalSense reviews coal COAs, buyer specifications, and commercial risk factors.
Sample report
Download Sample CoalSense Report
View a sample coal quality review report showing how CoalSense evaluates COAs, specifications, and commercial risk factors.
Process
A direct review built for decisions.
Clear Creek focuses on practical findings, not generic consultant language. The goal is to help you decide whether to proceed, renegotiate, investigate further, or walk away.
1. Intake
Send available COAs, specifications, operating records, incident history, maps, photos, or deal documents.
2. Review
Clear Creek screens operational, commercial, and coal-quality risk using field experience and CoalSense-assisted analysis.
3. Report
You receive a focused written review identifying risk drivers, likely financial impact, and recommended next actions.
Risk areas
Where coal deals and shipments get hurt.
Risk is rarely isolated. Mine conditions, operating history and safety performance, quality variance, shipment data, and commercial terms often interact.
Roof, rib, and ground control failure modes
Ventilation plan reality vs working-section conditions
Haul road design, dumping locations, berms, and equipment compatibility
Electrical, guarding, and mobile equipment maintenance exposure
Repeat safety and downtime events, operating-cost drag, and production reliability risk
Production plan vs seam thickness, geology, fleet capacity, and manpower
Request review
Send the COA, spec sheet, mine file, or deal problem.
For coal-quality reviews, include the COA or lab report, buyer/spec sheet, basis used, tonnage if available, and the issue you want checked. Redacted and historical samples are acceptable for early review.
What to send
COA or lab report
Buyer/spec sheet or contract quality limits
Coal type and intended use
Basis and units, if known
Shipment tonnage, if available
Specific concern or dispute question
Confidentiality can be discussed before full document review. Redacted files are acceptable for initial scoping.