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Bogatyr Coal ( kk, Богатырь Көмір, ''Bogatyr Kómir''; Russian ;
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), formerly known as Bogatyr Access Komyr, is the largest
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mining company in
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. As of 2018, the company produced 42 million
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s of coal, accounting for approximately 40% of the country's coal output that year. The company has mined approximately 1 gigatonne of coal in its history, and has 2.5 additional gigatonnes of coal reserves, making it one of the largest coal companies in the world. Bogatyr Komir operates two mines, the Bogatyr Mine and the Severny Mine.


History


Background

The discovery of coal in the Ekibastuz Basin, where Bogatyr Komir does much of its mining, dates back to the 1867, which was first exploited by a company named Voskresenskiy Mining JSC around the turn of the century. By 1913 an English company named Kirgizian Mining Joint Stock Company began operations in the area, back by major stakeholders such as
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and
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. In 1918 the
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nationalized the area's coal industry. The Ekibastuz Basin got its first coal mine, named "Central Mine", in 1954, which began producing 3 million tons of coal per year. Coal from this mine has since been used to power coal fired plants of the southern Ural region of the present-day
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, including plants in Troitsk and
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specifically designed for the high-ash coal the mine produced. From 1965 till 1979 the capacity of the
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was expanded to reach 50 million tons of coal per year, and the mine reached an output of 56.8 million tons of coal in 1985.


Foundation

In September 1996, the national company "JSC Ekibastuzkomir" (and its mine Bogatyr) was privatized by the Kazakh government, the
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bought the 70%-property of Bogatyr mine and Stepnoy mine, and the name was changed to Bogatyr Access Komyr, LLP. Later on the American company sold the mines to the Russian company
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, the world’s largest vertically integrated
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producer, that ensured stable fuel supply to Urals thermal power stations that provide electricity for RUSAL’s Urals plants. On November 29, 2007, a joint venture was established between UC RUSAL and Samruk-Energo (the energy branch of Kazakh state holding Samruk, to operate the coal mines of Bogatyr Access Komir.http://en.government.kz/site/news/112007/14 The rationale for this deal was the intention of the Kazakh government to return coal reserves into state ownership due to their strategic importance for Kazakhstan's electric power sector. On April 16, 2008 it was announced that the price Samruk Energo had to pay to UC RUSAL for a 50-% stake was 345 million USD. A deal in 2008 saw the company's management transferred to a joint venture between Samruk-Energy JSC, which is wholly owned by Samruk-Kazyna, and the Russian firm
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. In March 2009, the company was renamed from Bogatyr Access Komir, LLP to Bogatyr Coal, LLP. Bogatyr Komir has plans to modernize its Bogatyr Mine and expand its Severny Mine by 2020, which would increase the company's annual production capacity to 58 million tonnes of coal per year. The company has taken out a number of loans from the
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for the purpose of achieving this goal.


Bogatyr Mine

The company operates the Bogatyr Mine, near the city of Ekibastuz in Pavlodar Region of Kazakhstan. With an output of 56.8 million tonnes of
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in 1985, the Bogatyr Mine entered the
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for being the world's largest single
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. Since then this level of production was not sustained, and in 2007 the production of the mine was 40 million tons of coal. Together with the neighbouring Severnyi mine, the oldest mine in the Ekibastuz coal basin, they hold reserves estimated at 4.5 billion ton of coal, which at the current production rate give them a residual lifetime of over 100 years.


References


External links

{{Portal, Energy
Official site of Bogatyr Coal: http://www.bogatyr.kz
(English, Kazakh and Russian) Coal companies of Kazakhstan Mining companies of the Soviet Union