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Enefit Kaevandused

Company based in Estonia

Field	Value
name	Enefit Kaevandused AS
type	subsidiary of Eesti Energia
fate	merged into Enefit Power
foundation	1945
defunct	2021
location_city	Jõhvi
location_country	Estonia
area_served	North–east Estonia
key_people	Andres Vainola (CEO)
industry	Mining
products	Oil shale
num_employees	3,150 (2009)
parent	Eesti Energia

Enefit Kaevandused (former names: Eesti Põlevkivi and Eesti Energia Kaevandused) was a mining company located in Jõhvi, Estonia. It was a subsidiary of Eesti Energia, an Estonian state-owned energy company. The core activity of Enefit Kaevandused was oil-shale mining. The produced oil shale was mainly used for shale oil production and to fuel oil shale-fired power stations in the north–east of Estonia. As of 2009, the company had 3,150 employees. The last chief executive officer was Andres Vainola. | trans-title = Andres Vainola returns to the front of the mines to cut costs The company produced more than 17 million tons of oil shale in 2013.

History

Enefit Kaevandused were established in June 1945 as Eesti Põlevkivi, also known by its name in Russian Estonslanets. It was created by merging Kukruse and Käva II mines. In 1946, it took over Viivikonna mine.

New mines were opened in Ahtme (1948), Jõhvi (No. 2, 1949), Sompa (1949), Tammiku (1951), and in the area between Käva and Sompa (No. 4, 1953).{{Cite journal | doi-access = free | trans-title=Estonia oil shale mine celebrates 40th anniversary | url-status = live}} At the end of 1988, a fire broke out in the Estonia Mine. The largest underground fire in Estonia, it continued for 81 days and caused serious pollution of ground and surface waters. |trans-title=Underground fires in oil shale mines: special traits of their spreading, extinguishing and liquidating of consequences

In 1998, Eesti Põlevkivi and Dynamit Nobel opened an explosives manufacturing plant in Estonia. |trans-title= An explosives manufacturing plant starts working in Ida-Virumaa After Dynamit Nobel sold its explosives business to Orica, the later became the main shareholder in the plant.

Due to a decrease in demand, the Tammiku and Sompa mines closed in 1999 and those at Kohtla and Ahtme closed in 2001. In 2000, the open-pit mines at Viivikonna, Sirgala and Narva were merged into the single Narva open-pit mine. |trans-title=The oil shale saga on the lands of Narva open-pit mine | url-status = live}} The exhausted Aidu open-pit mine was closed in 2012, followed a year later by the Viru underground mine. | url-status = live}} | url-status = live}}

In 1999, Government of Estonia handed 51% of the shares of Eesti Põlevkivi to Narva Elektrijaamad. | url-access = subscription In 2003, Government transferred the remaining 49% stake in Eesti Põlevkivi to Eesti Energia. Also Narva Elektrijaamad-owned 51% stake was transferred to Eesti Energia and Eesti Põlevkivi became a fully owned subsidiary of Eesti Energia. | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141209185831/http://business.highbeam.com/437192/article-1G1-96632647/estonia-industry-government-give-eesti-energia-stake | url-status= dead | archive-date= 2014-12-09 | url-access = subscription

Starting from 2021, Enefit Kaevandused was merged with another subsidiary of Eesti Energia, Enefit Energiatootmine, to create an integrated oil shale company. | url-status = live}}

Gallery

File:Dragline excavator in the Baltic Oil Shale Basin.jpg|Dragline excavator in Narva mine. File:TEM18-192 PR near Ahtme.jpg|Company's train transporting oil-shale near Ahtme. File:Aidu mine.jpg|Unrehabilitated land in older part of Aidu mine.

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References

(2016-03-10). "Kaevandused - Eesti Energia".
[[#maendus. Saarnak ''et al''. (2014)]], p. 66

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