Coal production for 9 months. 2014 decreased by 13.2% in September - 2 times
Coal mining enterprises in January-September 2014, according to operational data, reduced coal production by 13.2% (8 million 105.4 thousand. Tons) compared to the same period in 2013 - up to 53 million 401.1 thousand. tons. According to the agency "Interfax-Ukraine" a source in the Ministry of Energy and Mines, mining of coking coal in the first nine months decreased by 20.1% (3 million 525.9 thousand. Tons) - 14 million 10,6 thousand. Tons energy - 10.4% (4 million 579.5 thousand. tons) to 39 million 390.5 thousand. tons. Coal producers, within the sphere of control Minenergouglya, in January-September reduced production by 12.3% (to 2.145 million tons) - up to 15 million 353.9 thousand. Tons. Coking coal production decreased by 17.8% (to 875 thousand. Tons) - up to 4 million 33.2 thousand. Tons of energy - 10.1% (1.27 million tonnes), up to 11 million 320.7 thousand . tons. In September of this year, coal production in Ukraine in connection with the fighting in the Donbas collapsed twice (3 million 410.3 thousand. Tons) compared to September 2013 - up to 3 million 387.8 thousand. Tons. Including coking 3.1 times (per 1 million 290.3 thousand. Tons) - up to 623.8 thousand. Tons of energy - a factor of 1.8 (2.12 million tonnes), up to 2.764 million tons. Coal producers, within the sphere of control Minenergouglya in September 2014 reduced output by 3.3 times (per 1 million 408.1 thousand. Tons) - up to 608.9 thousand. Tons, including coking coal - 3 times (on 357.2 thousand. tons), up to 180.1 thousand. tons of power - 3.5 times (per 1 million 50.9 thousand. tons), up to 428.8 thousand. tons. Mine Donetsk region in January-September 2014 provided the extraction of 22 million 365.6 thousand. Tons of coal (-19% for the nine months of 2013), Luhansk - 15.446 million tons (-19.6%), Dnipropetrovsk - 14 million 57 6 th. tons (5.7%), Lviv - 1 million 321.7 thousand. tons (+ 20.5%), Volyn - 210.3 thousand. tons (-23%). By September 2014 the largest drop recorded in the coal mining region of Donetsk, which produced just 962 thousand. Tons, which is 3.1 times less than in September of 2013. Lugansk region last month produced 772 thousand. Tons (-2.7 times). Dnipropetrovsk region produced 1 million 471.5 thousand. Tons (-7%), Lviv - 150.4 thousand. Tons (+ 11.7%), Volyn - 31.9 thousand. Tonnes (+ 9.6%). As reported, in response to falling coal in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of the fighting and, as a consequence, the reduction of coal thermal power plants in warehouses, Ukraine intends to import energy grade of coal from South Africa and the Russian Federation. Ukraine in 2013 has reduced coal production by 2.6% (to 2.219 million tonnes) compared with 2012 - up to 83.698 million tons, including state mines in 2013, reduced coal production by 2.9% (0.73 million tonnes) - up to 24.147 million tons.