In the first half of 2017, the company imported 2.572 million tonnes of coal, which was 11.6 times up year-over-year 2016.
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Kistion says Ukraine in 2017 almost halved consumption of anthracite coal whose stocks in Ukraine are insufficient, having used 4.8 million tonnes of anthracite at its thermal power plants.
Ukraine increased foreign exchange costs for imports of hard coal and anthracite by 1.87 times in 2017, to US$2.744 billion from $1.467 billion in 2016, according to the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.
According to the results of 2017, Ukraine will reduce consumption of scarce coal of anthracite group by almost two times, up to 5 million tonnes year-over-year (y-o-y), according to the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, referring to Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Kistion.
Ukraine's largest private energy holding DTEK has received 75,000 tonnes of gas coal delivered by a cargo ship from the United States to the port of Chornomorsk in Odesa region, according to the company's press service.
A third batch of 80,000 tonnes of coal from the United States was delivered by the MG EXPLORER vessel to the state-run Yuzhny ("Southern") Sea Commercial Port in Odesa region on November 9 for Ukraine's major power generating company PJSC Centrenergo, according to the port's press service.
Ukraine in January-October 2017 boosted coal imports in monetary terms by 1.8 times year-over-year (y-o-y), to US$2.151 billion, according to the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.
A second batch of 60,000 tonnes of coal from the United States was on October 12 delivered by the Victoria vessel to the state-run Yuzhny ("Southern") Sea Commercial Port in Odesa region for one of Ukraine's major power generating companies PJSC Centrenergo, according to the port's press service.
Stocks of anthracite coal at Ukrainian thermal power plants (TPP) shrank by 7.5% on September 13-20, 2017, to 513,300 tonnes, according to the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry's press service.
Ukraine's largest private energy holding DTEK has received its fifth 75,000-tonne batch of anthracite coal in the port of Yuzhny near Odesa, according to the company's press service.
Ukraine has received another batch of 75,000 tonnes of anthracite coal from South Africa, which will ensure the uninterrupted operation of Chernihiv and Darnytsia heat and power plants (CHPPs) amid the forthcoming heating season, according to Ukrainian media.
The first vessel carrying 62 tonnes of steam coal, which last week sailed off from Baltimore, should arrive in Ukraine before mid-September, Ukrainian ambassador to the United States Valery Chaly told Dzerkalo Tyzhnia weekly.
Stocks of anthracite coal at Ukrainian thermal power plants (TPP) shrank by 0.5% from August 28 to September 1, 2017, to 577,200 tonnes, according to the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry's press service.
Stocks of anthracite coal at Ukrainian thermal power plants (TPP) shrank by 4.8% on August 16-22, 2017, to 589,500 tonnes, according to the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry's press service.
The first shipment of anthracite coal from the United States, supplied by XCoal Energy and Resources, totaling 85,000 tonnes should arrive in Ukraine in early September, the embassy of Ukraine in the United States wrote on Facebook.
Stocks of anthracite coal at Ukrainian thermal power plants (TPP) shrank by 10.2% on August 9-16, 2017, to 619,100 tonnes, according to the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry's press service.
The company concluded with the U.S.-based Xcoal Energy&Resources a contract for the supply of 700,000 tonnes of anthracite coal by year-end, Centrenergo CEO Oleh Kozemko said during the contract’s presentation at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv on Monday.
Ukraine's largest private energy holding DTEK has received 75,000 tonnes of deficient anthracite coal delivered by a cargo ship to the port of Yuzhny near Odesa, according to the company's press service.
Production of power-generating and coking coal in Ukraine in January-May 2017 decreased by 4.1% compared to the same period last year, to 15.791 million tonnes, according to the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry's press service.
Ukraine's major power generating company PJSC Centrenergo plans to hold talks next week on the purchase in the United States of deficit anthracite coal for its thermal power plants (TPPs), the company's CEO Oleh Kozemko said ahead of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's visit to Trypilska TPP, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Ukraine's largest energy company DTEK, owned by Rinat Akhmetov, claims it revealed the attempts by the self-styled authorities of the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" (self- proclaimed Russian-supported Donetsk and Luhansk “people's republics”) to export anthracite coal from the temporarily occupied territories of eastern Ukraine to Spain and Turkey, according to DTEK Energo’s Acting CEO Dmytro Sakharuk.
The first cargo ship loaded with deficient anthracite coal arrived in Ukraine from the Republic of South Africa, the press service of Rinat Akhmetov’s DTEK wrote on Facebook.
Ukraine will be able to give up on anthracite coal as early as 2019, replacing it with gas group coal, Ukraine's Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk told a government meeting Wednesday, Ekonomichna Pravda reports.
Georgian company Saqnakhshiri GIG Group has won the tender set up by power generating company PJSC Centrenergo for the purchase of 700,000 coal of anthracite grade for Zmiivska and Tripilska TPPs.
Stocks of anthracite coal at Ukrainian thermal power plants (TPP) shrank by 7.2% on April 11-18, 2017, to 365,900 tonnes, according to the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry's press service.
The stocks of scarce anthracite coal in the warehouses of Luhanska thermal power plant, part of Ukraine’s largest private holding DTEK, will be enough for 44 days; while operations of the remaining four TPPs running on anthracite were suspended to save fuel, the press service of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry wrote.
Ukraine's largest private energy holding DTEK, controlled by Rinat Akhmetov, confirmed the purchase of 600,000 tonnes of deficit anthracite coal from South Africa with the option to increase it up to 1 million tonnes, according to the company's press service.