Viru Keemia Grupp
company based in Estonia
Viru Keemia Grupp is a private Estonian large-scale industrial enterprise. It focuses on oil shale mining, shale oil, combined heat and power production and production and marketing of fine chemical products.
Viru Keemia Grupp is located in Kohtla-Järve and continues the Estonian oil shale valorisation tradition that started in 1924. The company is based on private capital since 1997 when AS Kiviter was privatised. [1]
History
Estonia’s oil shale industry is a traditional Estonian industry, founded during the country's first period of independence. Local oil shale industry provided heat and light to Estonian households starting from 1924, and supplied household gas to Leningrad and Tallinn as well as other Northern Estonian towns. The list of products made in Kohtla-Järve through decades is rich and varied – from shale oil to fine chemicals, epoxy resins to nitrogen fertilisers, hair dye components to bitumens.
Operations
VKG's two main areas of operations are shale oil extraction, and electricity and heat production and distribution.
Shale oil production
The subsidiary producing shale oil is VKG Oil. The company utilizes two different processes: Kiviter and Galoter.
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