National Company of Lignite Oltenia
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National Company of Lignite Oltenia Târgu-Jiu was set up as a commercial society by the Government of Romania in 1997. The main headquarters of the company is placed in Târgu-Jiu, Gorj County.
The company has its material base in Gorj, Valcea and Mehedinti with total reserves of 20 billion tonnes of coal.
The annual production is around 35 million tonnes of lignite and 4 million tonnes of anthracite and the total number of employees is around 18.000.
Around 85% of the total production comes from Gorj County, especially in the North of the county where coal is extracted near Motru and Rovinari.
The main beneficiaries of the coal extracted here are the great Romanian power complexes Rovinari Power Station with a capacity of 1720 MW, Turceni Power Station with a capacity of 2310 MW and Craiova Power Station with a capacity of 615 MW thus making Gorj County the biggest power producer in Romania with around 36% of the whole energy produced in the country.
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[edit] Coal fields
[edit] Rovinari Coal Field
- has an annual production of 15.2 million tonnes of coal
[edit] Jilţ Coal Field
- has an annual production of 7.6 million tonnes of coal
[edit] Motru Coal Field
- has an annual production of 6.6 million tonnes of coal
[edit] Berbeşti Coal Field
- has an annual production of 2.6 million tonnes of coal
[edit] Husnicioara Coal Field
- has an annual production of 3.1 million tonnes of coal
