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COAL FIELD
EKIBASTUZSKOYE COAL FIELD
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The Ekibastuzskoye coal field is located in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan,
22 kilometres from the town of Ekibastuz. UC RUSAL extracts coal at the Severny
(in operation since 1954) and Bogatyr (in operation since 1970) opencast mines
as part of a joint venture with Samruk, a Kazakh holding company that manages
state assets. The Bogatyr and Severny opencast mines have approximately 3
billion tonnes in aggregate of recoverable reserves of coal. The production
capacity of the two mines is 42 million tonnes per annum, which is 42% of the
total annual coal output from Kazakhstan. The largest consumers of the
Ekibastuz coal are Kazakhstan and Russian power-plants. The production facility
currently employs 7, 359 people.
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Ekibastuz is a town in the Pavlodar
region in the Republic of Kazakhstan, with a population of 130,000 people. Its
major industrial sites are the Ekibastuz Power Plant 1 (AES) and Power Plant 2
and the Vostochny opencast mine controlled by Eurasian Energy Corporation
(ENRC).
The Pavlodar region in the north-east of the Republic of Kazakhstan dates back
to January 1938. The regional centre is the town of Pavlodar which has 745,000
inhabitants. Ranking among the most industrially developed areas in Kazakhstan;
the Pavlodar region has about 5,000 various types of businesses. The largest
among them are ÀÎ Aluminium of Kazakhstan, a branch of Aksus Works of
Ferroalloys controlled by ÀÎ TNK Kazhrom, ÀÎ Eurasian Energy Corporation, ÀÎ
Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant, ÀÎ Pavlodar Machine Building Plant, ÀÎ Pavlodar
Cardboard and Ruberoid Plant and others.
The Republic of Kazakhstan is a country, spanning part of Central Asia
and Europe, covering 2,717,300 square kilometres, with a population of
15,340,533 people. The key industries are power generation, ore mining and
processing and agriculture.
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Technology
The Bogatyr and Severny opencast mines are technological leaders in the Kazakh
coal sector. In 2001, the production facility started introducing a new coal
mining and blending technology, which has significantly improved the
effectiveness of the coal mining process. Coupled with the high production
potential of the production facility, these opencast mines can be considered
one of the most important existing and most promising future sources of fuel
for power generators in both Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation. Exports to
Russia amount up to 50% of the total production.
Certificates
In 2006, the production facility was awarded the ISO 9001:2000 and ISO
14001:2004 international certificates. The certifications cover a number of
areas including the coal and cobble extraction and transport systems, the
maintenance and repair of mining equipment, and the environmental management
system.
Development
UC RUSAL and Samruk are planning to jointly make investments to increase annual
production to 58 million tonnes of coal per annum. To achieve this, the
companies are going to upgrade the Severny opencast mine to 18 million tonnes
of coal per annum by 2020. Other projects include sustained investment in
capital projects and the modernisation of equipment to convert the Bogatyr
opencast mine to a truck-and-conveyor system of coal mining and blending. A
special flow-pattern loading station will also be built to load batches of coal
into railcars.
The production facility is planning to produce 44 million tonnes of coal this
year.
Environment
A technical development programme adopted by the production facility includes
projects to mitigate the mine’s environmental impact. The area used for dump
storage will reduce as the mine is gradually beginning to use an underground
waste disposal system. Emissions into the atmosphere will be cut by means of
new and effective dust control and aspiration systems to be installed on the
mine’s machinery and equipment.
Contacts
chancellery@bogatyr.kz
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