In 2017 Ukrainian thermal and steam power plants will consume 25.9 million tons of coal. 5.6 million tons will have to be imported, according to the Ministry of energy and coal industry fuel balance forecast. In 2017 Ukraine will have to import 733.4 thousand tons of gas-grade coal from Poland, 69.5 thousand tons of anthracite…
A new long face has been put into operation at the mine named after Lenin, operating within the Yuzhny Kuzbass coal company. The reserves of the long face are estimated at 369 thousand tons of coking coal. The length of the long face is 120 meters. The coal will be supplied to Russian iron and…
In January-February Ukraine imported 2.46 million tons of coal valued at $357.59 million. According to the State Fiscal Service, Russia supplied $247.24 million worth of coal, or 69.1% of the total imports, USA – $65.4 million (18.3%), and Kazakhstan – $20.45 million (5.7%). Other countries supplied 6.9% of all coal, or $24.51 million. Coal imports…
Rosterminalugol JSC, the largest dedicated coal port in the Baltic region, a part of Russia’s largest coal port holding Port Management Company LLC, says it has loaded the largest batch of coal in the company history. According to the terminal’s press center, 111,339 tons of coal delivered to the port in 1,560 wagons were loaded…
According to the ex-director of the PR department of Naftogaz Ukrainy Valentin Zemlyansky, imported coal will cover only half of what is needed to prepare for the next heating season. It is expected that new contracts for the delivery of coal from SAR and Australia will be concluded, and the first batches will arrive in…
The largest coalmine in Donbass – Komsomlets Donbassa – has been put out of operation. The mine is a part of DTEK, owned by Rinat Akhmetov. Most of the personnel were sent into unpaid vocation on March 3. Only the servicing employees were left who pumped water from the mine and controlled gas level. According…
Yakutugol, a part of Mechel, has started operations at the open-pit coalmine at the Jebariki-Khaya site. In summer 2016 the company stopped using underground method of mining at the site. For open-pit mining Yakutugol bought all the necessary machinery: excavators, bulldozer, dump trucks, etc. The project capacity of the pit is 320 thousand tons of…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said that the needs of the coal sector in mine rescue equipment are financed by 15-20%. “This is our tragedy that due to a lack of financing of many important spheres of life people are killed and suffer. Sufficient funds were not invested neither in coalmines, nor roads, hospitals,…