Consol may sell some coal to shed light on gas: analysts

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Galax, Virginia—Appalachian coal and natural gas producer Consol Energy, feeling the heat from Antero Energy’s initial public offering last week, will probably shed some coal assets to let the market better value its leading positions in the Marcellus and Utica shales, analysts said. “I’m all for it,” Tudor Pickering Holt’s Brandon Blossman said Monday of Consol wanting to maximize shareholder value by selling off steam coal assets.