The power-generating company Centrenergo has cancelled the tender to buy 700 thousand tons of anthracite coal for Zmievskaya and Tripolskaya thermal power plants with delivery in May-December. According to the company statement, the decision was taken by the management in fear of the price increase in case of exchange rate fluctuations. 2 companies participated in…
Petr Poroshenko has signed a decree to impose a moratorium on the bankruptcy of state mines until January 1, 2019. The decree prohibits accounts arrests and the procedure of bankruptcy unless by the order of the Ministry of energy and coal industry. Accounts arrests result in non-payment of salary to state miners, moreover coal companies…
In January-April coal companies of Chukotka Autonomous District mined 199.425 thousand tons of coal, up 2-fold YoY. At present two companies mine coal in the region – Ugolnaya Mine and Beringpromugol of Tigers Realm Coal Limited. Ugolnaya mine has supplied 77.925 thousand tons of coal from Anadyr deposits, down by 17% YoY. Beringpromugol, which started…
In 2016 Russia received 940 thousand tons of anthracite and 95 thousand tons of other coal from occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. These are only the volumes that have been officially included in the Russian Railroads statistics. In 2015 Russia illegally took some 1.3 million tons of anthracite from the occupied territories. Donbass…
Ukraine has received a confirmation of the arrival of the working group from USA on May 23. At present Ukraine is reviewing three sources of coal. “There are three sources, from where we intend to buy coal. The first is Richards Bay in South Africa. DTEK and Tekhnova are the main importers. Then its Kazakhstan,…
Uralmashzavod has concluded a contract for the delivery of an EKG-20 excavator to Mechel. The No. 18 machine will be operating at Neryungrinsky open-pit of Yakutugol, a part of Mechel. The excavator will be supplied in late 2017. Last year the company received 2 similar excavators. One has already been successfully put into operation. (Ukrainian…
The Ministry of energy and coal industry has asked the State Fiscal Service to confiscate all the coal originating from the occupied regions of Donbass. According to the ministry letter, the SFS has to demand the certificate of origin when the coal is imported, as well as take samples to check sulfur contents. The coal…
DTEK is expecting the arrival of a vessel with 75 thousand tons of anthracite from the South African Republic from May 22 through May 28. “Next week we expect the arrival of coal to restock our supplies at TPPs. The vessel with the first coal batch has already made a long way and is passing…