Ukraine increases coal output by 9% in 2011
KYIV. Jan 10 (Interfax) - Production enterprises in Ukraine increased coal output by 8.9% (by 6.693 million tonnes) in 2011 to 81.859 million tonnes in comparison with 2010, the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Ministry told Interfax.
The ministry said that production of energy coal went up by 11.4% to 57 million tonnes while coking coal output increased by 3.7% to 24.859 million tonnes.
Production enterprises under the ministry's sphere of management reduced coal output in 2011 by less than 0.1% to 38.431 million tonnes, including coking coal - up 1.2% to 7.541 million tonnes while energy coal output decreased by 0.3% to 30.891 million tonnes.
The bulk of production came from OJSC Pavlogradugol, up 2.5% to 15.414 million tonnes, state enterprise Rovenkiantratsit - up 21.4% to 7.324 million tonnes, mining management Pokrovskoye - up 42% to 6.794 million tonnes, state enterprise Sverdlovantratsit - up 2.9% to 6.561 million tonnes, and Krasnodonugol - down 2.6% to 5.647 million tonnes.
The Donets Region increased coal production by 13.1% to 36.266 million tonnes, Lugansk -up 9.7% to 27.2697 million tonnes, and Dnepropetrovsk - up 2.5% to 15.414 million tonnes. At the same time, production in the Lviv region went down by 10.2% to 2.359 million tonnes and Volyn region - down 4.8% to 550,200 tonnes.
Enterprises in Ukraine increased coal production by 4% (by 2.863 million tonnes) in 2010 to 75.166 million tonnes.
