UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 17, 2009

CONSOL Energy Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	001-14901	51-0337383
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

CNX Center

1000 CONSOL Energy Drive

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania 15317

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:

(724) 485-4000

Not applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Item 8.01 Other Events.

Attached as Exhibit 100 to this report is the information contained in Part II, Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data from CONSOL Energy Inc.’s (the “Company”) Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 17, 2009, formatted in XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language).

Users of this data are advised pursuant to Rule 401 of Regulation S-T that the financial and other information contained in the XBRL documents is unaudited and that these are not the official publicly filed financial statements of the Company. The purpose of submitting these XBRL formatted documents is to test the related format and technology and, as a result, investors should continue to rely on the official filed version of the furnished documents contained in our Form 10-K filing and not rely on the information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 100, in making investment decisions.

In accordance with Rule 402 of Regulation S-T, the information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 100, shall not be deemed to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

Exhibit 100 Information contained in Part II, Item 8 - Financial Statements and Supplementary Data from CONSOL Energy Inc.’s (the “Company”) Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 17, 2009, formatted in XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language).

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

CONSOL ENERGY INC.
By:	/s/ William J. Lyons
	William J. Lyons,
	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Dated: February 18, 2009

Exhibit Index

Exhibit No.	Description
Exhibit 100	Information contained in Part II, Item 8 - Financial Statements and Supplementary Data from CONSOL Energy Inc.’s (the “Company”) Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 17, 2009, formatted in XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language).