Who owns Shoal Creek?
Shoal Creek is owned by Peabody (the United States, NYSE: BTU).[1]
Evidence: Peabody Energy Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-19, SEC EDGAR, 19 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Peabody Energy Corporation verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, St. Louis
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Energy › Power & utilities › Coal
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: BTU
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Shoal Creek
Shoal Creek is an Alabama underground longwall metallurgical coal mine in Peabody's Seaborne Metallurgical segment. The 2025 Form 10-K says it had a fire in March 2023 and restarted production in June 2023, and lists 1.8 million tons produced in 2025.
What Peabody's annual report says about Shoal Creek
Sentences about Shoal Creek from Peabody's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
During 2024, lock outages along the Black Warrior River in Alabama, U.S. negatively impacted Peabody's sales volume and transportation costs at the Shoal Creek Mine.
Peabody has secured its ability to transport coal from its Shoal Creek Mine under barge and port contracts; the primary port is the McDuffie Terminal in Mobile, Alabama.
(3) The moisture condition for the Seaborne Metallurgical segment coal quality is on an air-dry basis, except for the Shoal Creek Mine, which is on a dry basis.
How often Peabody names Shoal Creek in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Shoal Creek
Where Shoal Creek sits in Peabody
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Peabody
Peabody controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in energy.
Also in energy
Other brands in coal, and who owns them
The 18 brands in coal on Brandtree belong to 8 owners. The largest is Core Natural Resources, with 4; Peabody has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Arch Resources | Core Natural Resources | 🇺🇸 United States |
| River View | Alliance Resource Partners | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Marfork | Alpha Metallurgical Resources | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Berwind | Ramaco | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Blue Creek | Warrior Met Coal | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Sunrise Coal | Hallador | 🇺🇸 United States |
| North American Coal | NACCO | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Black Thunder | Core Natural Resources | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Peabody
Peabody is a publicly listed company headquartered in St. Louis, United States. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: BTU.
Peabody is a producer of metallurgical and thermal coal. Its 2025 Form 10-K says it owned interests in 16 active coal mining operations in the United States and Australia at 31 December 2025, including a 50% equity interest in Middlemount. It reports four segments: Seaborne Thermal, Seaborne Metallurgical, Powder River Basin and Other U.S. Thermal.
🇺🇸 Shoal Creek and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Shoal Creek is not one of them.
- AES Ohio — AES 🇺🇸
- Agway Energy Services — Suburban Propane 🇺🇸
- Alabama Power — Southern Company 🇺🇸
- AmeriGas — UGI 🇺🇸
- American Transmission Company — WEC Energy Group 🇺🇸
- Arch Resources — Core Natural Resources 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Shoal Creek?
The parent company of Shoal Creek is Peabody, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Shoal Creek American?
Yes. Shoal Creek originated in the United States and its owner, Peabody, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Shoal Creek still owned by Peabody?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Shoal Creek is still owned by Peabody. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Peabody Energy Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-19 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 19 February 2026; retrieved 5 October 2026.
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