The Cabinet of Ministers is carrying out a number of projects to decrease coal consumption. According to the Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman, the construction of the electricity line from Rovenskaya NPP to Kievskaya substation will allow saving some 1.44 million tons of coal per year. Reconstruction of Dnestr HNPP will yield the economy of 700…
In March Ukraine consumed 2.86 million tons of coal, down by 37.7% YoY and by 26.1% MoM. According to the State Statistics Service, last year coal consumption increased by 9.4%, to 31.3 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
Sakhnakhshiri LLC (GIG Group, Tbilisi, Georgia) has won a tender of the public joint-stock company Centrenergo to supply 700,000 tons of coal, according to the results of an auction held in the ProZorro procurement system. Sakhnakhshiri offered to supply coal for UAH 1,808,789,000, while the second bidder – I–COAL Sp z o.o. (Poland) – offered…
Deputy economy minister Sergey Nazarov declared that Russia needed no coal from the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, occupied by the militants. “Each month we supply some 1 million tons of coal to Ukraine. But we only deliver coking coal, not power-generating coal”, he added. Nazarov also noted that there were no coal deliveries from the…
In January-March Ukraine mined 6.7 million tons of coal, down by 11.3% YoY. According to the State Statistics Service, in March coal output dropped by 17.7% YoY, to 2 million tons. In January-February coal output increased by 11.3% YoY, or by 750.8 thousand tons, to 7367.9 thousand tons. Coking coal output dropped by 24.2%, or…
Miners were rescued after almost two days in Jergalan, the sister of the miner Akbermet Dorgoeva reported. Information was also confirmed in the office of government’s permanent representative in the region. “Rescuers reached the miners and brought them to the surface, they are safe and sound. They spent almost two days under the rubble and…
In 2017-2019 Kolmar intends to spend some 17.4 billion rubles to develop the Inaglinsky mining and processing complex and 11 billion rubles to modernize the Denisovsky GOK in Yakutia. Inaglinsky includes an open-pit and Inaglinskaya mine, as well as the Inaglinskaya-2 processing factory. At present the open-pit yields some 2 million tons of coal and…
In January-March Krasnoyarskkraiugol mined over 2 million tons of coal, up by 20% from the target and by 287 thousand tons YoY. Pereyaslovsky and Sayano-Partizansky open-pits showed the highest growth, with the latter increasing output 1.5-fold in 2 years. In 2016 it mined 700 thousand tons of coal. At present the open-pit is preparing the…