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…
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…
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…
In January-March DTEK mined 7.2 million tons of coal, up by 5.8% YoY. According to the company statement, the output rise allowed processing factories to increase coal processing and concentrate manufacture – to 5.4 and 3.4 million tons respectively. In Q1 DTEK Rovenkiantrazit, DTEK Sverdlovantrazit and DTEK Komsomolets Donbassa Mine anthracite output increased by 120.4%…
DTEK plans to sell its Obukhovskaya Mine Group and Donskoy Antrazit (Russia).
Beginning with April 11, without the official statement, DTEK Zapadenergo decreased acceptance of state coal from 3 thousand tons to 800-900 thousand tons per day.
DTEK Ternovskoye Mine Group was the second among other DTEK mine groups to yield 1 million tons of coal since the beginning of the year.
DTEK Pershotravenskoye MG is assembling the electric part of the lifting machine at the vent shaft of the Yubileynaya #3 mine. For the past 6 years DTEK has invested 165 million UAH in the construction of the new mine. This year it will spend 38 million UAH on construction.