Increase in coal production in Ukraine by almost 10%

According to operational data of Ministry of Energy and Coal in January-September 2011 coal production in Ukraine amounted to 60 697.4 thousand tons (9.6% more than in January-September 2010), including coking - 18 585.9 thousand tons (4.4% more), and energy coal - 42 111.4 thousand tons (12.0% more).

Coal mines within the sphere of control Ministry of Energy and Coal extracted 28 674.4 thousand tons of coal (1.8% more), including coking - 5 674.1 thousand tons (1.1% more), the energy - 23 000.3 thousand tons (2.0% more).

Coal extracting plan was exceeded by 22.5%, including companies falling within the scope of Ministry of Energy and Coal management - 7.5%.

Background: In 2010 coal production in Ukraine amounted to 75,231 million tonnes (4.1% more than in 2009), including coking coal - 24,182 million tonnes (6.2% less), energy - 51,049 million tonnes (9.9% more). Coal extracting plan was exceeded by 15.4%, including coking - by 51.3%, the energy coal - by 3.7%.

In 2010, the state coal-mining enterprises produced 38,450 million tons of coal (0.2% more than in 2009), including coking coal - 7,455 million tons (17.8% less), the energy coal - 30.995 million tons (5.8% more). Coal extracting plan was exceeded by 1.2%, including coking - by 6.6%, the energy coal - was not fulfilled by 0.04%.