DTEK Energo has increased investments in development and modernization of its combined heat and power plants and mines. In January-August the group invested 3.6 billion UAH, up by 80% YoY. In particular, investments into DTEK Pavlogradugol and DTEK Dobropolyeugol totaled 2.9 billion UAH. This allowed increasing output of gas coal, which is supposed to completely…
The minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik says Ukraine is experiencing the shortage of gas coal to replace anthracite. In 2017 anthracite consumption dropped by 3.5 million tons and is expected to decrease by 3 million tons more in 2018. Nasalik has addressed the Ministry of finances to provide funds for investments into…
DTEK is waiting for the arrival of two ships with anthracite from South Africa in the middle of September. “Each ship will deliver 75,000 tons of coal that is in short supply. Our thermal power plants – Kryviy Rih and Prydniprovska – would be able to generate enough electricity for Ukraine. These plants would help…
In January-August coal enterprises produced 23.592 million tons of coal, down by 9.4% YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, coking coal output decreased by 24.5%, to 4497.3 thousand tons, power-generating coal – by 5%, to 19094.7 thousand tons. In August Ukraine produced 2543.2 thousand tons of coal, down by 26.1% YoY.…
At the Horizon mine in the pro-Russia terrorist-occupied Makeevka following the accident at least two miners perished. The accident happened on September 1, when the mine was flooded. The body of a miner – the Makeevka citizen (born 1987) – was recovered. Soon after that the body of another miner was found – also Makeevka…
The Lviv region state administration is against uniting all the state mines into one company, the administration fuel and energy saving department director Mikhail Melnik reported. “We don’t like the idea of turning separate enterprises into manufacturing subdivisions. We want money invested into each mine, we want them modernized. The country is carrying out the…
The Ministry of energy and coal industry will find financial resources – some 1 billion UAH – to pay salary to miners and clear 2017 debts. According to the miners union, the primary goal of the ministry and the government is to pay salary to miners in full, as well as clear all the debts…
Beringpromugol LLC intends to have increased coal mining at the Fandyushkinskoye Pole deposits in Chukotka to 2 million tons per year by 2024. In 2020 a new processing factory with the capacity of 1 million tons per year will be put into operation. According to the company CEO Denis Kurochkin, until the end of the…