Eesti Energia Kaevandused ("Mines of Estonian Energy") (former name: Eesti Põlevkivi ("Estonian Oil Shale")) is a subsidiary of Eesti Energia

Eesti Energia

Eesti Energia AS is a state-owned energy company in Estonia with its headquarters in Tallinn. The company operates in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Jordan. In Estonia the company operates under the name Eesti Energia, while using the brand name Enefit for international operations...

, an Estonian state-owned energy company. The core activity of Eesti Energia Kaevandused is oil-shale

Oil shale

Oil shale, an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock, contains significant amounts of kerogen from which liquid hydrocarbons called shale oil can be produced...

 mining

Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...

 in the north-east of Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

. The company has 3,150 employees. The chief executive officer

Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...

 is Ilmar Jõgi.

The produced oil shale is mainly used to fuel oil shale-fired power stations in north–east Estonia

Narva Power Plants

The Narva Power Plants are a power generation complex in Narva in Estonia, near the border with Leningrad Oblast, Russia. The complex consists of the world's two largest oil shale-fired thermal power plants, Eesti Power Plant and Balti Power Plant . In 2007, Narva Power Plants generated about...

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Eesti Energia Kaevandused has following subsidiaries:

• Estonia Underground Mine - oil-shale mining
• Viru Underground Mine - oil-shale mining
• Aidu Open-Cast - oil-shale mining
• Narva Open-Cast - oil-shale mining
• AS Põlevkivi Raudtee - rail transportation
• Orica
  Orica
  Orica is a multinational corporation that manufactures various chemical products. It is the largest supplier of mining explosives in the world. -History:...
  
  Eesti OÜ (35% of shares) - production of explosives

External links

• Eesti Põlevkivi website