DTEK, which produces some 70% of electricity in Ukraine, has received the first offers from power-generating coal suppliers from SAR and Australia, who can sell it at 1.7-2.15 thousand UAH ($68.5-86.6) per ton with 5.7 thousand kcal quality. According to the company commercial director John Woodham, deliveries from the temporarily uncontrolled territories (the so-called Donetsk…
DTEK draws attention to the highly unstable deliveries of A-grade coal from the terrorist-occupied regions of Donbass. “The delivery volume is extremely low”, said the DTEK Energo communications department director Irina Milyutina. According to DTEK, daily deliveries total 7-10 tons. (Ukrainian metal)
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…
Last year a group of Ukrainian scientists and DTEK specialists started working on the project of overcoming the difficult and dangerous mine opening. The group had to make course through the Bogdanovsky dislocation with a break in continuity – the gigantic crack in the rock 50 km long – to the new coalbed. The shaftmen…
The mass media have informed that the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic has made the DTEK into its Regional energy company and fired all the employees. According to the DTEK communications department, all group companies are working under the management of DTEK and are registered on Ukrainian territory. In 2014 all the staff was evacuated to…
DTEK welcomes the transition to the new technique of calculating the price, where the coal price is linked with the European coal price index (API2). “Still we don’t feel any positive effect of the new technique yet. But the whole idea of bringing Ukrainian price to international market indexes is a correct decision, as the…
CEO of DTEK Maxim Timchenko explains the increase in price of the company bonds with the rise of output and the progress in debt restructuring. In Q1 the company was able to reach normal coal output volumes and started paying its debts in late April. (Ukrainian metal)
Stepnaya mine of DTEK Mine Group Pervomayskoye has put a new long face into operation. The gas-generating coal reserves of 900 thousand tons will keep miners busy for the next 10 months. The company plans to mine on average 3100 tons of coal there. Investments into the long face machinery totaled 70 million UAH. (Ukrainian…