DTEK Dobropolyeugol

DTEK Dobropolyeugol LLC is an integral mining complex,including 5 mines situated in one of the largest  industrial and mineral mining regions of Donbass. The estimated commercial coal reserves in the region total 3.7 billion tonnes. Given the current production capacity, these reserves will cover the solid fuel needs for more than 500 years. About 60% of the coal reserves have coking properties.

All the mines of DTEK Dobropolyeugol have sufficient explored reserves. Practically all of them have reserve seams or whole blocks that can be handed over to the mines causing a significant increase in their service life.

DTEK plans to invest a total of UAH 2 billion into Dobropolyeugol’s mines within five years. The investments will be used for equipment stock renewal, capital construction, expending of reserves, optimization of seam exploration, longwall expansion, etc. Due to the financing, by 2015, the amount of produced coal is expected to grow from 2.8 to 5.2 million tonnes per year, whereas accident frequency rate is to drop by 50%.

Produced coal is supplied to Zuyevskaya and Kurakhovskaya TPPs of Vostokenergo, Ladyzhinskaya and Burshtynskaya TPPs of Zapadenergo, Zaporozhskaya TPP of Dneproenergo, and Ukrainian coking plants.

About 5% of coal is used for in-house needs and implementation of social programmes, such as heat supply to towns and villages.

General Director – Vladimir Panibratchenko.