Satbayev University and ArcelorMIttal Temirtau JSC have founded a joint enterprise to realize a coal-bed methane exploration and production project at the Karaganda coal basin. Coalbed methane (CBM or coal-bed methane), coalbed gas, coal seam gas (CSG), or coalmine methane (CMM) is a form of natural gas extracted from coal beds. As the international experts’…
On July 9 the operation of the Novovolynskaya No. 9 mine (state enterprise Volynugol) was suspended. The miners demanded from the authorities to clear salary debts. On July 5 the Ministry of energy and coal industry divided budget funds. It was planned to spend 324 million UAH to clear salary debts, with 9.5 million UAH…
In January-June Seligdar increased rock transportation by 15% YoY, to 10 million cubic meters. Rock mining grew by 56%, to 5.8 million tons. Gold output increased by 39%, to 1327 kg. Nizhneyakokitsky Works demonstrated the best results having obtained 600.1 kg of gold. This year Seligdar intends to mine 6 tons of gold. (Ukrainian metal)
The ChTPZ group was the first in Russia to start manufacturing import-replacing products – steel frames of oxygen converters for steel manufacture. The first frame has been produced at the Eterno Works. In June the converter was supplied to the NTMK. The total weight of the frame is over 120 tons, the height when assembled…
Severstal and Air Liquide have ahead of schedule finished the capital repairs of the largest in Russia machine to produce industrial gases at the Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. “The capital repairs have lasted for 11 days instead of the planned 14 days. The restoration of the compressor machinery took the most part of the…
The steelmaking laboratory of the A.A. Ugarov Stary Oskol Technological Institute, a branch of the National University of Science and Technology MISiS (NUST MISiS), launched at OEMK (a part of Metalloinvest), has begun developing new steel grades. The laboratory is conducting experimental smelting in a new vacuum induction-melting furnace with a maximum capacity of 60…
Russia’s aluminum exports almost tripled MoM, to 420,100 tons in May, the Federal Customs Service said. In monetary terms, aluminum exports grew 2.55-fold, to $751.6 million. In January-May the exports rose by 22.8%, to 1.337 million tons in volume terms and by 44.1%, to $2.482 billion in monetary terms. Copper exports grew by 25.9%, to…
The commercial court of the Zaporozhye region has satisfied the claim of the Special anticorruption prosecutors office to Toleis Trading Limited, a part of Dmitry Firtash’s Group DF, on the cancellation of the agreement with the State Property Fund of Ukraine on the creation of the Zaporozhye Titanium and Magnesium Works LLC on the basis…
