Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said that the problem of wage arrears, in particular, requires modernization of the industry and increased coal production. “There is an issue of restructuring the industry as a whole. I don’t like how things are going on in the coal industry. The impression is that this is a closed…
Since the start of the year Chukotka has yielded 546.84 thousand tons of coal, up by 50% YoY. In three quarters Beringpromugol extracted 433.15 thousand tons of coal, with over 300 thousand tons exported to China, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam and Japan. This year the company intends to mine 600 thousand tons of coal, and…
Since the start of the year Kuzbass enterprises have mined 136.7 million tons of power-generating coal and 53.3 million tons of coking coal, up by 5.4% YoY. Mines yielded 67 million tons (65.1 million tons in January-September 2017), and pits – 123 million tons (115.1 million tons). In September 22.1 million tons of coal were…
Swiss coal trader Mercuria, a potential investor in a 24-billion ruble Lavna coal terminal in Murmansk, is unhappy with Russia’s State Transport Leasing Company’s (STLC) decision to work with a company of tycoon Andrei Bokarev, according to Mercuria’s letter to Transport Minister Yevgeny Ditrikh. Lavna with a projected annual capacity of 18 million tons is…
Power-generating coal output in Krasnoyarsk region in January-September grew by 26% YoY, to 780 thousand tons. Coal in the region is mined at the Sayano-Partizanskiy pit, an asset of SAFMAR. Taking into account favorable market situation, this year the pit could for the first time in its 15-year history reach the annual output of 1…
Since the start of the year Amur region has mined 2.5 million tons of power-generating coal, up by 5% YoY. In the region coal is mined at the Erkovetsky and Severo-Vostochniy pits. To further increase Erkovetsky capacities, Amur Coal will by new machines – a hydraulic excavator and bulldozers. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-September DTEK Energo increased gas coal output by 4.6% YoY, to 17.7 million tons. According to the group statement, DTEK Pavlogradugol mined 14.8 million tons of coal, up by 1.1%, while the output of DTEK Dobropolyeugol grew by 27%, to 2.9 million tons. “In the remaining three months of the year we intend to…
The Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry believes that in 2019 power-generating coal consumption by power plants will grow by 4.4% YoY, to 27.75 million tons. In particular, it is expected that 5.1 million tons of anthracite and 22.65 million tons of gas coal will be consumed. 4.67 million tons of anthracite will be imported,…