In January-October Chukotka Autonomous District mined 601.5 thousand tons of coal, up 1.5-fold YoY, and by 35% from the whole last year. The main coal output is provided by Beringpromugol LLC. Since late 2016 the company has been developing the Fandyushkinskoye field deposits. This year the company has mined 471 thousand tons of coal, up…
In January-October Ukraine imported 17.425 million tons of coal valued at $2.461 billion. According to the State Fiscal Service, the share of coal in total imports was 5.3%. The largest coal suppliers were Russia ($1.525 billion, or 62% of the whole imports), USA ($739.278 million, or 30%) and Canada ($126.946 million, or 5.2%). Other countries…
In January-September DTEK decreased coal output by 4.9% YoY, to 19.987 million tons. At the same time the output of gas coal grew by 4.6%, to 17.711 million tons. Concentrate manufacture dropped by 14.6%, to 8.995 million tons. The Obukhovskoye Mine Group in Russia produced 2.276 million tons of coal and 1.421 million tons of…
In 2019 DTEK Energo intends to increase gas coal output by 2.04% YoY, to 25 million tons. According to the CEO Dmitriy Sakharuk, because of the increase of capacity at DTEK Pavlogradugol and the commissioning of additional sites at DTEK Dobropolyeugol, the output has already been increased by 1.7 million tons. In January-September DTEK Energo…
Anthracite, extracted at 11 seized DTEK mines on the Ukraine-uncontrolled territory of Donbass, goes trough Russia to various European Union countries. “According to our information, up to 2 million tons of coal have been shipped from the occupied areas of Donbass. Polish companies bought some 300 thousand tons”, DTEK CEO Maksim Timchenko declared. The company…
DTEK Pavlogradskoye Mine Group has ahead of schedule completed the annual output plan.
The miners yielded 506,900 thousand tons of gas coal 2 months ahead of schedule.
In October the first site started mining coal from the new long face. DTEK invested some 40 million UAH in its development. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-September Ukraine mined 24.849 million tons of coal, down by 5.1% YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, coking coal output dropped by 11.8%, to 4.463 million tons, and of power-generating coal by 3.5%, to 20.385 million tons. In September coal output grew by 8.3% YoY, to 2.781 million tons. The…
In January-September Yakutia mined 13.037 million tons of coal, up by 5.2% YoY. In Q1 the output was 4.256 million tons, up by 6.6% YoY, in Q2 – 4.296 million tons (+3.7%) and in Q3 – 4.526 million tons (+5.7%). This year the region intends to yield 18 million tons of coal, up by 7%…
In January-September Kamchatka sold 16 thousand tons of coal, down by 12.5% YoY. Only one company in the region is mining coal – Palana-ugol LLC. The company is developing the Palana deposits. Last year Palana-ugol sold 20 thousand tons of coal. This year the sales are expected at the same level. The company has been…
Russia sells coal from the territory of Donbas not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities to Turkey and possibly to Poland, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said. Klimkin said that Russia blended Ukrainian coal with its own coal so that it could not be identified. “Then the coal goes to Turkey. Now the investigation is…
In January-September Sakhalin region mined 8.2 million tons of coal, up 1.5-fold YoY. Solntsevskiy Coal Pit LLC provided for the most yield – 5 million tons. The rest was mined by 9 other companies. In 2017 the region mined 7.6 million tons, up by 9.7% YoY, with 4 million tons contributed by Solntsevskiy Coal Pit.…
In September Ukraine increased coal imports by 1.5% YoY, to $215.429 million, while exports grew by 99.5%, to $0.034 million. According to the State Fiscal Service, the main supplier was Russia ($136.23 million). In January-September Ukraine imported $2191.76 million worth of coal, up by 15.4% YoY, while exports dropped by 89.2%, to 8.127 billion. (Ukrainian…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said that the problem of wage arrears, in particular, requires modernization of the industry and increased coal production. “There is an issue of restructuring the industry as a whole. I don’t like how things are going on in the coal industry. The impression is that this is a closed…
Since the start of the year Chukotka has yielded 546.84 thousand tons of coal, up by 50% YoY. In three quarters Beringpromugol extracted 433.15 thousand tons of coal, with over 300 thousand tons exported to China, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam and Japan. This year the company intends to mine 600 thousand tons of coal, and…
Since the start of the year Kuzbass enterprises have mined 136.7 million tons of power-generating coal and 53.3 million tons of coking coal, up by 5.4% YoY. Mines yielded 67 million tons (65.1 million tons in January-September 2017), and pits – 123 million tons (115.1 million tons). In September 22.1 million tons of coal were…
Swiss coal trader Mercuria, a potential investor in a 24-billion ruble Lavna coal terminal in Murmansk, is unhappy with Russia’s State Transport Leasing Company’s (STLC) decision to work with a company of tycoon Andrei Bokarev, according to Mercuria’s letter to Transport Minister Yevgeny Ditrikh. Lavna with a projected annual capacity of 18 million tons is…
Power-generating coal output in Krasnoyarsk region in January-September grew by 26% YoY, to 780 thousand tons. Coal in the region is mined at the Sayano-Partizanskiy pit, an asset of SAFMAR. Taking into account favorable market situation, this year the pit could for the first time in its 15-year history reach the annual output of 1…
Since the start of the year Amur region has mined 2.5 million tons of power-generating coal, up by 5% YoY.
In the region coal is mined at the Erkovetsky and Severo-Vostochniy pits.
To further increase Erkovetsky capacities, Amur Coal will by new machines – a hydraulic excavator and bulldozers. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-September DTEK Energo increased gas coal output by 4.6% YoY, to 17.7 million tons. According to the group statement, DTEK Pavlogradugol mined 14.8 million tons of coal, up by 1.1%, while the output of DTEK Dobropolyeugol grew by 27%, to 2.9 million tons. “In the remaining three months of the year we intend to…
The Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry believes that in 2019 power-generating coal consumption by power plants will grow by 4.4% YoY, to 27.75 million tons. In particular, it is expected that 5.1 million tons of anthracite and 22.65 million tons of gas coal will be consumed. 4.67 million tons of anthracite will be imported,…
Ukraine increased imports of coal, including anthracite, by 20% YoY, to 15.64 million tons in January-September from 13.03 million tons a year ago, the State Customs Service reported. If measured by value, imports of coal increased by 15%, to $2.19 billion, compared with $1.9 billion in January-September 2017, S&P Global Platts wrote. Most of the…
Deputy Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Anatoliy Korzun says the Cabinet of Ministers has allocated UAH 136 million ($4.8 million) in wages for the country’s miners. “The government has signed a resolution on the allocation of UAH 136 million to pay off wage arrears for miners. Now the last conciliation procedures are underway. I…
In January-September Ukraine increased imports of coal by 20% YoY, to 15.64 million tons. According to the State Fiscal Service, the cost of coal was $2.191 billion, up by 15.4%. Russia supplied $1.374 billion worth of coal (62.72%), USA – $670.563 million (30.59%), Canada – $86.93 million (3.97%) and other countries – $59.532 million (2.72%).…
Indian energy company Tata Power has received a license to invest in a coal deposit on Russia’s Far East, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev reported on October 5. “We are actively working with several Indian companies on investments in Russia, including with Tata Power, which plans to develop actively the…
In September Ukraine produced almost 2.8 million tons of coal, down by 1.5% from the plan, the Coal Miners Union of Ukraine reported with a reference to the data provided by the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry. “In September coal mining enterprises of Ukraine of all forms of ownership produced 2,781,626 tons of coal. The…
The employees tax police of the State Fiscal Service have seized 1.8 thousand tons of illegally mined coal valued at over 5 million UAH.
The coal has been seized and arrested under the criminal case on the illegal mining on the territory of Lugansk region.
The investigation is underway. (Ukrainian metal)