The Ministry of energy and coal industry has set a goal to decrease the dependence on the anthracite coal, supplied from the ATO zone, by 30% per year. “In 3 years we have to be completely independent of this coal”, the minister Igor Nasalik said. According to him, on March 1, 2017 the second block…
Ukraine intends to clear its salary debts to the state miners by January 2017. According to the minister of energy coal industry Igor Nasalik, all the debts will be cleared by January 1, 2017. “The miners will be celebrating the New Year’s Day and the Christmas with enough money”, he said. In spring 2016 the…
The Mine Group named after Space Heroes has fulfilled its annual target by mining 4.5 million tons of coal. This is the record-high result in the Mine Group history and the highest in Ukraine. In November Blagodatnaya mine was the first among DTEK enterprises to reach the annual target, with Space Heroes following in December.…
The coal from the territory of the so-called Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics could become useless. Ukraine was forced to buy coal from the occupied territories, but now could stop the purchases altogether. According to the first deputy chairman of the BPP fraction Igor Kononenko, Ukraine had to buy the separatist coal in order not…
Samarskaya mine has put long face No. 4202 into operation. Its 569 thousand tons of coal will allow the miners to work for a year. The face length is 184 meters. The average daily output is expected to exceed 2 thousand tons of coal. (Ukrainian metal)
The Verkhovnaya Rada of Ukraine has provided for 870 million UAH in the state budget-2017 under the state coal companies support program by partially compensating for the coal extraction expenses. Moreover, the construction of the Novovolynskaya No. 10 mine will get 150 million UAH, taking into account the previously given 20 million UAH. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-November Ukraine imported $817 million worth of coal from Russia. According to the State Fiscal Service, total imports reached $1.29 billion, with exports on the level of $43.28 million. The main importers in the given period were Slovenia ($25.8 million), Russia ($7.5 million) and Turkey ($7.1 million). In January-November Ukraine imported $817.4 million worth…
The minister on the Antiterrorist operation and the occupied territories Vladimir Kistion said that Ukraine annually bought some 9 million tons of coal in Donbass. “This coal is mined by Ukrainian companies, registered on the Ukrainian territory and paying taxes to the state budget”, he added. Earlier the minister of energy and coal industry Igor…