In January-August Chukotka Autonomous District mined 317.4 thousand tons of coal, up by 68% YoY. At present 2 companies develop coal sites – Shakhta Ugolnaya and Beringpromugol LLC. In 8 months Shakhta Ugolnaya shipped 153.5 thousand tons of coal, down by 19% YoY, while Beringpromugol mined 163.9 thousand tons at the Fandyushkinskoye deposits. This year…
In 2017 Russian coal exports to the Asia-Pacific Region countries will exceed $5 billion. The share of coking coals will reach 25% against 18% in 2014. Coal transportation through Far Eastern ports in 2016 totaled 60%, up from 46% in 2009. 88% of Russian coalmining companies expect an increase in world coal prices in 2017.…
The state budget for the year 2018 does not provide for the subsidies to state coalmines. “Subsidies for mines are not stipulated in the 2018 budget project”, the minister of finances Alexander Danilyuk said. The chairman of the Donetsk military-civilian regional state administration Pavel Zhebrivsky in early June said that by autumn 2018 all the…
In August DTEK purchased 72 thousand tons of coal, mined in Lviv and Volyn regions, up by 37%. According to the company statement, DTEK combined heat and power plants are the main customers of Lvivugol and Volynugol. Purchasing volumes depend on the energy balance in the country and the demand for electricity. Since the beginning…
Russian coal exports in January-August increased by 7.8% YoY, to 122.456 million tons, the Ministry of Energy of Russia statistics showed. In August, the commodity exports totaled 15,605,000 tons. Coal mining in the eight-month period reached 264,301,000 tons, with 230,404,000 tons supplied. (PortNews/Ukrainian metal)
In August the Obukhovskaya Mine Group (Rostov region, Russia), a part of DTEK, supplied some 105.3 thousand tons of anthracite to Ukrainian thermal power plants, slightly more than in July (103.5 thousand tons). Of this volume 88.8 thousand tons were delivered to Lugansk TPP (89.7 thousand tons in July), and 16.5 thousand tons to Pridneprovskaya…
In August Russia exported to Europe some 175 thousand tons of coal, illegally taken from the occupied Lugansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine. According to the Federal Customs Service, exports decreased by 34% MoM, or by 92 thousand tons. The largest exporter of Ukrainian coal is Gaz-Alyance, controlled by Sergey Kurchenko. In August it exported…
In January-August DTEK Energo mined 15.2 million tons of gas coal, up by 13.2% YoY. After the anthracite blocks of combined heat and power plants are switched to gas coal, the need in this fuel will increase. “That is why now we witness the overfulfillment of targets of coal mining at our mining companies”, the…