Samarska Coal Mine

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Samarska Coal Mine (Шахта Самарська) is a mothballed coal mine in Ternivka, Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Samarska Coal Mine	Ternivka, Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine	48.4743947, 36.1173475 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Mothballed	–	1973	–

Table 3: Operation details

Note: The asterisk (*) signifies that the value is a GEM estimated figure.

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
–	1.7	2015	Underground	–	–	730*	–

Table 4: Coal resources and destination

Total Reserves (Mt)	Year of Total Reserves Recorded	Total Resources (Mt)	Coalfield	Coal Type	Coal Grade	Primary Consumer/ Destination
–	–	–	–	Bituminous	–	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
DTEK Pavlogradugol PJSC [100.0%]	DTEK Energy BV	Ukraine

Table 6: Historical production (unit: million tonnes per annum)

Note: The asterisk (*) indicates that the value is an estimated figure based on various factors, including the company's forecasted or reported monthly or quarterly production data, etc.

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
ROM	–	–	–	–	1.7*	–	–	–	–

Note: The above sections were automatically generated and are based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker August 2026 release.

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Background

The Samarska Coal Mine is an underground coal mine in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. The Samarska coal mine is an underground coal mine. It is operated by DTEK Pavlogradugol, a subsidiary of DTEK Group, which is owned by Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov.

In 2020 and 2021 the coal mines of DTEK Pavlodgradugol produced 16 million tonnes of coal.

The mine's production is very limited with only 2015 production level available at 1.7 Mt.

Pavlograd is considered the center of Western Donbas and coal mines are located around the city. Located 80km from the Donetsk region, the city periodically suffers from Russian shelling. Due to the Russian invasion, many people left Pavlograd, including mine workers, and about 3,600 miners were mobilized into the Defense Forces. Coal enterprises faced a personnel crisis and now many women are employed in the mines in Pavlograd.

The mine appeared to be operational, as of the end of 2023.

However as of June 2024, most of the mines in Western Donbass were planned to close, including the Samarska coal mine. That said, according to DTEK's 2021 strategy, the Samarska mine was planned to operate until 2035.

In July 2024, most of the Western Donbas mines temporarily suspended operations due to a sharp fall in coal demand following Russian destruction of DTEK's thermal power plant generation capacity. By October 2024, DTEK Pavlogradugol mines had resumed operations on a five-day working week, collectively producing approximately 90% of all Ukrainian coal output.

No source had been identified confirming whether the Samarska mine specifically resumed production following the temporary suspension in July 2024. DTEK Pavlogradugol as a whole continued to operate as of early 2025.

Methane Plumes Detected Nearby

Global Energy Monitor researchers analyze satellite-detected methane plumes in order to determine whether they have been observed at or near the site of GEM energy assets. The satellite data provider creates imagery of individual methane plumes and estimates their emission rates at the time of observation. GEM has reviewed many of these plume detections against Google Earth imagery and GEM’s own energy infrastructure tracker data. The following table lists methane plumes which are associated with the energy asset or facility based on distance and manual review. (A full description of the analysis process is available in the Global Methane Emitters Tracker methodology wiki page.)

Table M1: Plume details

For additional details on this individual plume identification and others, see the Global Methane Emitters Tracker.

Observation date	Satellite data provider	Location of plume origin	Methane emissions rate	Additional plume information
2025-04-22T09:20:22+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250422t092022c00s4001-E	48.47439, 36.11707	317.9894 kg/hr	Dnipropetrovska Region Methane Observation 2025-04-22, 3
2025-04-27T09:07:08+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250427t090708c00s4001-A	48.47415, 36.1171	–	Dnipropetrovska Region Methane Observation 2025-04-27, 1
2025-04-29T09:21:07+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250429t092107c00s4001-C	48.47467, 36.11714	717.0331 kg/hr	Dnipropetrovska Region Methane Observation 2025-04-29, 1
2025-05-04T09:07:54+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250504t090754c00s4001-B	48.47431, 36.11686	1472.769 kg/hr	Dnipropetrovska Region Methane Observation 2025-05-04, 1

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