Ukraine will continue to buy Russian coal if necessary, said the Russian Ministry of energy and coal industry head Alexander Novak. “We’re continuing to sell coal to Ukraine. A couple of million tons this year for sure”, he said. According to him, there is no such situation when Ukraine stops buying Russian coal at all.…
DTEK expects the anthracite coal delivery from the Russia-supported terrorists-occupied regions of Donbass to renew. “The primary reason for the delivery stop was the railroad strike on the yonder side. But now it has stopped. Because of the military activities the railroad infrastructure was damaged, but it is being repaired. Still, the situation changes every…
The deputy minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Dmitry Labozhenko has discussed prospects of cooperation in modernization of state coal companies with the representatives of the State Development Bank of China. Ukraine has already received Chinese credit to modernize a Lisichanskugol mine ($85 million). In 2012 Naftogaz Ukrainy signed an agreement with the…
In January-May Ukrainian coke plants imported 5.24 million tons of coking coals and coal concentrate, up by 34% YoY, or by 1.3 million tons. In May Ukraine imported 960 thousand tons of coal, down by 70 thousand tons MoM. Ukrainian coal deliveries to coke plants in January-May totaled 2.54 million tons, up by 18% YoY,…
There have been no deliveries of coal from the occupied regions of Donbass since June started. “We have serious problems with A grade coal, even though the situation is not as critical as last year”, said the National commission on energy and municipal services regulations director Dmitry Vovk. “It is difficult to meet the needs…
The Ministry of energy and coal industry suggests giving 1.3 billion UAH in 2017 to finance coal industry. 850 million UAH will be given as subsidies to state mines, while 450 million will be spent on the closing down of profitless coal companies, according to the minister Igor Nasalik. In January-May Ukrainian mines yielded 16.29…
Volyn mines started yielding less coal. Since the year start they have yielded 92.2 thousand tons of coal, down by 20.7% YoY. In 2015 Ukraine mined 39.75 million tons of coal, down by 38.8% YoY, or by 25.23 million tons, including 8.15 million tons of coking coal (down by 49.8%) and 31.6 million tons of…
In January-May Ukraine mined 16287.1 thousand tons of coal, up by 1.5% YoY, or by 238.6 thousand tons. Coking coal output increased by 11%, or by 367 thousand tons, to 3702.7 thousand tons, while that of power-generating coal went down by 1%, or by 128.4 thousand tons, to 12584.4 thousand tons, all YoY. The Ministry…
