Ukraine: shady company to get 300+ million UAH for coal
Ukraine has enough coal for 45-50 days, says the minister for energy and coal industry Vladimir Demchyshin, and soon imported coal would arrive that would stabilize the situation.
Ukraine has enough coal for 45-50 days, says the minister for energy and coal industry Vladimir Demchyshin, and soon imported coal would arrive that would stabilize the situation.
The state committee has put into operation a new long face at the Pavlogradskoye Mine Group with enough coal for 1.5 years.
In 2015 the mine group put four new long faces into operation.
Ukraine will use 250 thousand tons of anthracite coal from SAR in less than a month. So this coal will not solve this winter’s problem.
Delivery of Russian coal to Ukrainian companies of Evraz has been temporarily stopped.
DTEK could import coal by sea only if the state enterprise Energorynok pays all its debts to the company.
Coking coal deliveries from Russia stopped several days ago, said Metinvest CEO Yuri Ryzhenkov.
“To fully supply our thermal power stations we are actively seeking suppliers from the South African Republic. Two ships are now carrying coal to us. 168 thousand tons for Centreenrgo and 80 thousand tons for thermal stations. The first vessel with coal should arrive on December 4, the second – on December, 12. So in…