11 June. The first press club of DTEK devoted to the topic ‘Image of Ukrainian Business Abroad’ took place. Managers of leading business mass media took part in the event. To address the issue from the different points of view experts were invited to take part in discussions:

 

Quentin Peel, International Affairs Editor, Financial Times;

 

Ulrike Hauer, Attaché for Trade and Economy, the Delegation of the European Commission to  Ukraine;

 

Oleh Skrypka, leader of the Vopli Vidopliassova band;

 

Nataliya Popovych, President, PRP Group CIS;

 

Vitaly Butenko, Chief Strategy Officer, DTEK;

 

Sergey Kordashenko, HR and Corporate Communications Director, DTEK.

 

See the photo report on the event on DTEK’s website http://dtek.com/press/galery/our_events/gallery_3133.htm.

 

As a part of the implementation of the Programme on Development and Introduction of the Occupational Health and Safety Management System to meet the OHSAS 18001:2007 international standard at DTEK’s coal enrichment and energy supplying companies, training of internal auditors is being conducted in II-IIIQ this year. Members of enterprises’ initiative groups, safety persons authorized by labour collectives attend the course. Both engineers and ordinary workers take part in training.

 

Training purpose is to enhance the efficiency of the safety management system, improve timely response to external and internal changes and to meet the requirements of OHSAS 18001:2007.

 

Training sessions at the five coal enrichment plants, Ekoenergoresurs company, repair shop Pershotravensky RMZ, Service-Invest and Energougol ENE are conducted by the international company Management Systems Consulting Ltd.

 

Furthermore, training sessions in the course ‘Leading Auditor of OHSAS 18001:2007 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems’ are scheduled from June to August for the top managers of the coal enrichment plants, heads of services, workshops, units and structural units.

 

In order to get more personnel involved into the safety process, TPPs of Vostokenergo continue the training course ‘Leading Auditor of OHSAS 18001:2007 Occupational Health and Safety Management System’ for persons authorized by the workforce of TPPs. In QII 38 authorized persons were trained, training for 5 more persons is planned in QIII.

 

Specialists who successfully pass tests will be given the respective Certificates of leading and internal auditors.

 

Training of internal auditors is one of the key components of the first preparatory stage for the introduction of the reviewed Safety Management System (SMS). After bringing the SMS in place in line with the requirements of OHSAS 18001:2007, the enterprises will undergo an international certification in the fourth quarter 2010.

 

In 1Q 2009, the coal mining and energy generation companies of DTEK successfully completed the certification of the Safety Management System (SMS) as to its compliance with the international standard OHSAS 18001:2007. On 16 April 2009, the international registrar, Moody International, issued the respective certificates to the managers of Pavlogradugol, Komsomolets Donbassa and Vostokenergo.

 

 

Mid-May, a delegation of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) headed by the NUM Secretary, Chris Kitchen paid a two day working visit to Pavlogradugol (DTEK). The delegation had been invited by the Dnepropetrovsk Territorial Unit of the Trade Union of Coal Industry Employees. The goal of this visit of the British trade union was to share experience of creating conditions for miners’ safe work, rehabilitation, training, etc.

 

On 12 June, the NUM site published the preliminary visit results and positively assessed the condition of the production facilities and safety situation at the mines of Pavlogradugol.

 

The message quotes Wayne Thomas, Area Secretary of the South Wales NUM and National Executive Committee member of the NUM:

 

"Conditions at the coal mine [Pavlogradugol] were similar to those at my own mine, Tower Colliery. It was interesting to see that with state and company support, high standards of safety are strived for and that the union in co-operation with the mine owners had put safety at the highest level. Whereas there can always be improvement in safety it was interesting to see that there was a common purpose between the miners and the company to continually monitor safety and to seek to maintain improvements year after year".

 

You can read the full text on the site of the NUM http://www.num.org.uk/?p=news&c=num.

 

11 June. The State Commission has accepted for commissioning new longwall 878 at Ternvoskaya mine, a part of Pavlogradugol (DTEK) with the grade ‘Excellent’. The longwall length is 150m; the length of the extraction panel is 925m; the seam thickness is 1.49m. The new breakage face is equipped with a RKU-10 set, a SP-26U conveyor, a DM shearer. The new longwall is being extracted by Coal Production Section No 1, headed by Mikhail Fidorchuk (team leader is Vladimir Nemtsov). It is planned to daily produce 1400 tons of black ‘gold’ from longwall 878, which coal reserves exceed 325 thousand tons.

 

8-12 June. XXIV Practical and Scientific Conference arranged by the Ministry of Coal Industry of Ukraine and the Union of Mining Specialists took place. It was devoted to the results of the implementation of the Safety Improvement Programme by coal mining and mine construction companies in 2006-2010. Rashid Azamatov, Deputy General Director on Safety of Pavlogradugol, took part in the conference. He presented the report Safety Management in the Updated Production Management System, which aroused a special interest among conference participants.

 

‘One of today’s key challenges in the Ukrainian coal industry is low efficiency of safety services at coal mining companies. That is why it has been especially important for us to share our positive experience of reforming the safety system at DTEK’s enterprises with our colleagues, among which Pavlogradugol is’, said Rashid Azamatov.

 

Announcements: 16 to 20 June. In the city of Alushta, III Sports Competition among Ukrainian Coal Industry Employees, where 24 coal mining companies including Pavlogradugol, will take place. Competitions will take place in 8 sports: chess, checkers, armwrestling, table tennis, futsal, volleyball, track and field athletics and kettlebell lifting.

 

 

11 June. Komsomolets Donbassa Mine (DTEK) bought contactor starters required for the operation of Ostroj roof supports, which will be used in Production Section No 6 (Section Head is Viktor Yurko). The total equipment cost is UAH1.643m. It is planned to commission longwall 9, seam L7, Production Section # 6, equipped with an Ostroj set in the first ten days of July.

 

12 June. Komsomolets Donbassa Mine is going to allocate about UAH2m for summer recreation of its employees. The recreation centre Selena, a structural unit of the company, has already welcomed the first holidaymakers. 17 mine’s employees can enjoy rest in comfortable rooms on the coast of the Sea of Azov. Socis Ltd. (DTEK), operating the recreation centre, has spent about UAH30thou.for the repair and improvement of the centre.

 

Mine’s employees may have holiday at the recreation centre Shakhtyor (the city of Berdiansk), the rehabilitation centre Vremena Goda (the settlement of Koktebel, the Crimea), the hotel Village Club (the settlement of Chernomorskoye, the Crimea), the recreation centres Zhemchuzhina, Golubaya Volna, Kapriz.

 

Despite the crisis, the company is not going to cut funding for employees’ summer rest, which remains at the level of 2008.

 

 

15 May. Vostokenergo keeps the leading position among fossil-fuelled generation companies in Ukraine. In May 2009, Vostokenergo supplied 871.4m kWh to the state company Energorynok, which accounts for 25.7% of the Ukrainian thermal generation market that month.

 

Vostokenergo is going on with its large-scale programme on energy equipment reconstruction. On May 4, the second reconstruction stage started. Units No. 7 at Kurakhovskaya TPP and No 1 at Zuevskaya TPP were shut down, equipment dismantling began.

 

11 June. The joint meeting of experts from Vostokenergo, Kurakhovskaya TPP and TekhEnergo (Lvov) has agreed a concept for the construction of a desulphurization installation at unit N7 at Kurakhovskaya TPP. Sulphur treatment will be installed simultaneously with the reconstruction of the energy unit from June to December this year. The expected reduction of sulphur emissions will be up to 60%. The essence of the concept is to inject limestone of special granulation into the convection shaft of the energy unit. Limestone as a sorbent ensures effective absorption of SOx. The project is unique for Ukraine.

 

The installation of this low-cost facility is a temporary alternative before the introduction of general plant desulphurization planned by the Company for TPPs of Vostokenergo. A tender to select a developer of the feasibility study for such environmental facilities is in progress. Flue gas desulphurization installations (FGD) require significant funds and have a long construction period. Such installations are large constructions the costs for which are equal to half of the funds required to build a new unit. Thus, to have a certain effect now Vostokenergo is installing sulphur treatment under the design developed by the Ukrainian company TekhEnergo.

 

10 June. Athletes of Luganskaya and Kurakhovskaya TPP (Vostokenergo) successfully took part in VI Summer Sport Competitions among employees of the electric power and engineering industries of Ukraine in Alushta, the Crimea. The competitions included: track and field athletics, armwrestling, kettlebell lifting, table tennis, volleyball, futsal, chess. The team of Lugansk Regional Committee of the Trade Union of Energy Sector Employees, among which members Luganskaya TPP’s employees were, took the first place and the combined team of Donetsk Regional Committee of the Trade Unions (where the sportsmen of Kurakhovskaya TPP participated) was the second.

 

The athletes of Luganskaya TPP has taken 17 medal places in different sports, including: 7 first places,  8 second ones and 2 third places and, thus, gained the most medals.

 

The prize-winners of Luganskaya TPP will be a backbone of the combined team of the Ukrainian Energy Sector Trade Union to take part in the inter-sector Sport Competitions among employees of production industries, transport and communications, which will be held in September in Alushta.

 

 

6 June. The energy supplying company Service-Invest (DTEK) celebrated 9 years of its operations. Today, the company is a legitimate member of the Wholesale Electricity Market of Ukraine (WEM). Its 154-110-35 kV electrical networks of 2,500 km long and 48 substations are located in Donetsk and Dnepropetrovsk regions. The main electricity consumers of Service-Invest are leading energy intensive manufacturing companies of Donbass: Donetsk Iron and Steel Works, Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol,  Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works and others. After expanding the area of its licensed activity in  2007 in Dnepropetrovsk Region, the company supplies electricity to the Central and Northern mining and processing integrated plants (Centralniy GOK and Severniy GOK), Pavlogradugol and since 2008 to Krivorozhsky Mining Equipment Plant.
 

Competent technical and investment policy allowed the company to achieve the lowest level of electricity process consumption in Ukraine. In 2008, Service-Invest ranked fourth in the country in terms of electricity transmission and supply, which accounts for 6.16% of the total electricity purchased by license holders in the WEM. Continuously improving the reliability of electricity supplies to consumers, over 9 years of operations, the Company has reconstructed 13 key base substations and electricity transmission lines of 151 km with applied state-of-the-art equipment, automation systems and IT-technologies.

 

15 June. Service-Invest opened an in-house training centre. Its main area is professional training and advance training for employees, which will make it possible for the Company to cut costs for training of specialists in jobs in high demand.

 

On 22-26 June, training sessions will take place on the programme ‘Set-up of REF Feeder Terminal of ABB Manufacture’. Advanced training methods will be applied. Instructors will be highly qualified company’s specialists who were trained by leading universities of Russia and Ukraine and then at manufacturing sites of АВВ and Siemens (Sweden, Germany, Finland), whose equipment is installed at energy facilities of Service-Invest. As a result participants will be awarded with a certificate of further training.

 

15 June. Service-Invest completed tenders on equipment purchase and works performance for  2009 investment projects. As of today, the reconstruction of the 35 kV high voltage line Donetskaya-Rutchenkovo N1, 2 has been accomplished and works are in progress on the 35 kV high voltage line Smolyanka-GPP-4. Reconstruction on the 110 kV substation Konstantinovka (the town of Konstantinovka) continues; works started at 110 kV substations  HSPKZ1 (Khartsyzsk), Chulkovka (Donetsk) and on switching the 35 kV substation (Donetsk) to voltage of 110 kV. Within the framework of the latter project the company is laying two 110 kV cable lines of 1.8 km long to the substation, the first time in the company’s history.

 

 

DTEK is the first private vertically-integrated power company in Ukraine. It is part of the financial and industrial group System Capital Management (SCM). The enterprises of DTEK build up an efficient operational chain of coal production and enrichment, electricity generation and distribution.

 

The coal business of DTEK includes Pavlogradugol (consisting of ten coal mines), Komsomolets Donbassa Mine and five enrichment plants. According to the 2008 performance results, DTEK’s share in the Ukrainian coal mining industry was 22.6%.

 

The generation business of DTEK is represented by Vostokenergo and the associated Dneproenergo Company, in which DTEK owns 47.46%. According to the 2008 performance results, the share of Vostokenergo and Dneproenergo in the thermal generation of Ukraine was 25.4% and 22.4% respectively.

 

Service-Invest and PES-Energougol represent the electricity distribution business of DTEK. Their share of electricity purchase in SE Energorynok in 2008 made up 6.5%.

 

Pavlogradugol is the largest coal producing company of Ukraine. It includes 10 coal mines and other structural units. According to the results of 2008, the coal production of Pavlogradugol was 18.2% of the total Ukrainian output.
 

Komsomolets Donbassa Mine is the largest producer of thermal coal with the annual output of over 3 m tons, which accounts for 4.4% of the general Ukrainian production. The mine has its own coal enrichment complex, ensuring the low ash content in the commercial product.
 

Vostokenergo, an energy generating company of DTEK, takes the leading position in the thermal generation market (25.4%) of electricity supplies by Ukrainian TPPS upon the results of 2008. It operates Zuevskaya, Kurakhovskaya and Luganskaya thermal power plants. The total installed capacity of the company’s units as of 1 July 2008 reached 4085 MW. Since 2007 Vostokenergo has been implementing a large scale programme of unit modernization.

 

Service-Invest is one of the largest energy supplying companies in Ukraine. The company’s electrical networks of 2,500 km long and 48 substations are located in Donetsk and Dnepropetrovsk regions. In 2008 Service-Invest ranked fourth in the country in terms of electricity transmission and supply, which accounts for 6.16% of the total electricity purchased by license holders in the WEM.