Soma Kömür İşletmeleri
Soma Kömür İşletmeleri A.Ş. (Soma Mining Inc., German translation about "Kohlebetriebe Soma AG ") is a Turkish coal mining company based in Istanbul and one of the largest coal producers in the region. In 2014, it had 7,500 employees and produced 2.5 million tons of coal annually, according to information on its website. He owns the Eynez lignite mine (Turkish: Eynez Maden Ocağı ), where the Soma mine disaster took place, in which at least 301 people were killed.
The Soma Kömür İşletmeleri A.Ş. is part of Soma Holding , which by its own account is the largest private coal producer in the country. It was founded in 1984. The first coal was mined in 1986. Soma Holding has also been active in the construction industry since 2010. In 2005, the Turkish State Coal Production Company ( Türkiye Kömür İşletmeleri Kurumu TKİ) granted it the right to extract around 18 million tons of coal. In September 2009, the mining company received a concession from Ciner Holding to produce around 15 million tons of coal from the Soma -Eynez deposits. The Eynez mine produces 2.5 million tons of coal annually. The company has 5,500 employees, including 5,000 underground miners and about 130 engineers as technical staff, according to information on its website. In May 2014, Soma Holding said in a press release that there were 7,500 employees at Soma Kömür İşletmeleri A.Ş.
In addition to mining in the Soma-Eynez region, the holding company also operates hard coal mining in the Zonguldak region .
The head of Soma Holding, Alp Gürkan, said in an interview with the daily Hürriyet in 2012 that the cost of coal in Soma had been reduced from $ 130–140 per ton at the time of mining by TKİ to $ 23.80 per ton.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Press release from Soma Holding on the mine disaster on May 13, 2014 ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on their website. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
- ↑ Soma Holding homepage on May 17, 2014.
- ↑ Emre Peker: Turkey Coal Mine Explosion Kills More Than 200 . In: The Wall Street Journal , May 14, 2014.
- ↑ Soma Maden'in sahibi kimdir? (Alp Gürkan Kimdir) (Turkish) . In: Milliyet , May 14, 2014. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
- ↑ Kömür madenciliği / Soma Bölgesi ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of Soma Holding (tr). Retrieved May 17, 2014.
- ↑ Kömür madenciliği / Zonguldak Bölgesi ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of Soma Holding (tr). Retrieved May 17, 2014.
- ↑ Gündüz, Şaban & Üsame Ar: Soma Holding, kömürün maliyetini 135 dolardan 24 dolara indirmiş (Turkish) . In: Zaman , May 15, 2014. Archived from the original on May 16, 2014 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
