DTEK plans to import about 2 million tons of coal in the second, third and fourth quarters of 2017, DTEK CEO Maksym Tymchenko said. “We see the need for more than 2 million tons of coal by the end of the year. Today one vessel has already been contracted, we expect delivery in early May.…
Out of 25 million tons of coal, used by Ukrainian power plants in 2016 anthracite accounted for only 9 million tons, with just 400 thousand purchased abroad, the people’s deputy, the Rada committee on the fuel and energy issues secretary Viktoria Voynitskaya reported. Thus the “Rotterdam+” formula, supported by the Petr Poroshenko team, does not…
The Ministry of energy and coal ministry on its next meeting has to present its strategy of the mine development. “We have to finally create our own program of restructuring and modernizing mines and the coalmining industry. We didn’t have such a program before. I suggested creating a strategy of the mines development”, the Prime…
The Prime Minister of Ukraine Vladimir Groysman believes that the government could start buying coal from USA, Australia and South Africa. “We will buy it for foreign currency. Either from the US, or from Australia, or from the South Africa. This is very serious”, he said. According to him in its time the government of…
The Ministry of Transport and Roads and the State Committee for Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use of Kyrgyzstan can’t agree on railway tariffs for the transportation of coal, the head of the State Committee Duishenbek Zilaliyev said on March 24, at a government meeting. According to him, under the agreement on the application of unified…
Ukraine’s government intends to ban imports of steam coal from Russia, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk declared. “A draft resolution is currently in the pipeline. A decision will follow,” he said when answering a question about plans to ban anthracite coal imports from Russia. The draft resolution is planned to be considered…
The so-called Donetsk People’s Republic has started hunting for the ex-CEO of the Zasyadko mine Pavel Filimonov. He is suspected of committing a crime connected with the violation of safety rules while conducting mining or construction operation resulting in the death of 2 or more people. The militants already arrested Filimonov in 2015 following an…
On March 1-20, over 3.4 thousand wagons with coal passed the border with Russia, according to the statistics data of the Russian Railways. Thus Russia took some 230 thousand tons of anthracite (10 thousand tons per day) from the uncontrolled territories valued at around 400 million UAH. (Ukrainian metal)