Shandong Energy Group Co. Ltd. () is a state owned coal-mining company headquartered in Jinan, Shandong, China. It is among the seven largest Chinese coal companies. The group was created in March 2011 by merging six existing coal mining companies. These companies included Xinwen Mining Group, Zaozhuang Mining Group, Zibo Mining Group, Feicheng Mining Group, Linyi Mining Group and Longkou Mining Group. Shandong Energy and Yankuang Group merged in 2020, following a wave of mergers of state-owned companies throughout China. The new parent company kept the ''Shandong Energy Group'' name.

Ownership

The company is a Chinese state-owned enterprise. It is wholly owned by the Shandong Provincial SASAC, not to be confused with the central government's

SASAC The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) is a special commission of the People's Republic of China, directly under the State Council. It was founded in 2003 through the consolidation of vario ...

Coal

Shadong Energy owns 29 mines. In 2011, the company mined 108.2 million metric tonnes of coal and is planning to produce 120 million metric tonnes in 2012. In addition to the production in China, the company is developing a coal mine in

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, and plans to expand to Australia,

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, and

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. In March 2012, the company's subsidiary Linyi Mining Group made a take-over bid for Australian coal company Rocklands Richfield. In the

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mining area, the companies subsidiary Xinwen Mining Group together with Australian

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has planned to develop a coal gasification project with a capacity of of syngas per year. The company's subsidiary Longkou Mining Group is the only company in China mining coal beneath the seabed. The mining is carried out at the Beizao Underwater Coal Mine in

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to the north of the

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Oil shale

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is produced as a coal mining by-product by company's subsidiary Longkou Mining Group. It operates shale oil plant which is equipped with 40 Fushun retorts. The

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production is about 120,000 tonnes per year and the planned full capacity is 200,000 tonnes of shale oil per year. The company also plans to utilize Enefit-280 technology. In addition, the company plans to burn shale char mixed with particulate oil shale in fluidized bed combustion for power generation, and the shale ash would be utilized for production of building material.

Power generation

The company owns several coal and oil shale-fired power stations. In addition, it plans to develop nuclear, wind and solar power.

Subsidiaries

* Feicheng Mining Group (100%)

References

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