On December 1-11, coal stocks at the thermal power plants totaled 1.948 million tons, up by 110 thousand tons YoY. Of them 928 thousand tons are of anthracite coal, including 140 thousand tons at Lugansk TPP. Gas-grade coal stocks total 1.02 million tons, with 114 thousand tons at Burshtyn TPP. (Ukrainian metal)
The Verkhovnaya Rada of Ukraine has accepted in the first reading the decree “On amendments to the decree “On the state budget of Ukraine for 2016” as to partial cover of expenses of coal companies. The goal of the decree is to ensure the functioning of the coalmining enterprises and thermal power plants of Ukraine…
Miners of the Uskovskaya mine were the first among Raspadskaya Coal Company divisions to reach the annual target of coal output, by yielding 2 million tons. Uskovskaya coal is supplied to Evraz companies, as well as other metal and by-product coke enterprises of Russia, Asia and Ukraine. (Ukrainian metal)
According to the deputy minister on uncontrolled territories and refugees Georgi Tuka the issue of coal purchases from the Kiev-uncontrolled districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions has been over-politicized by the so-called hurrah-patriots. “Formally this cannot be named a purchase. This is a transportation of the coal mined at one DTEK division to another. There…
Within the strategy of social partnership between DTEK and the towns where the group is present, all the schools of 7 villages of Dobropolye district have enough coal for heating. Coal deliveries to households have been 97.8% fulfilled. Village schools received 230 tons of coal, enough for the entire heating season. Moreover some 11.7 thousand…
All the companies of DTEK, situated on the occupied territories, are working under Ukrainian jurisdiction. “We have 8 companies on uncontrolled territories: mines, one power plant and network companies that transport electricity in the Donetsk region. All of them pay taxes to Ukrainian budget”, the company CEO Maxim Timchenko said. “We bring as much coal…
The Samarskaya mine of the DTEK Ternovskoye Mine Group has put a new long face (No. 184) into operation. The face length is 250 meters. It will be in operation until May 2017. Investments into the long face totaled 50 million UAH. By the year-end the miners plan to put another long face into operation.…
In January-November Russian coal exports climbed by 13.2% YoY, to 149,049,730 tons, the Ministry of Energy statistics reported. In November coal exports totaled 13,833,700 tons. Coal production in November reached 33,904,400 tons. (Portnews/Ukrainian metal)