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Viru Keemia Grupp, the Glossary

Viru Keemia Grupp (VKG) is an Estonian holding group of oil shale industry, power generation, and public utility companies.^[1]

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Chemical companies of Estonia
Electric power companies of Estonia
Kohtla-Järve
Oil shale companies of Estonia
Synthetic fuel companies

Ahtme Power Plant

Ahtme Power Plant (Ahtme soojuselektrijaam) was an oil shale-fired power plant in Ahtme, Kohtla-Järve, Estonia. Viru Keemia Grupp and Ahtme Power Plant are Kohtla-Järve.

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The Alberta Taciuk process (ATP; known also as the AOSTRA Taciuk process) is an above-ground dry thermal retorting technology for extracting oil from oil sands, oil shale and other organics-bearing materials, including oil contaminated soils, sludges and wastes.

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Atomstroyexport

Atomstroyexport (Атомстройэкспорт) is the Russian Federation's nuclear power equipment and service exporter.

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Äripäev

Äripäev (Estonian for "Business Day") is an Estonian financial newspaper in tabloid format.

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Baltic News Service

The Baltic News Service (BNS) is the largest news agency operating in the Baltic States.

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Conservative People's Party of Estonia

The Conservative People's Party of Estonia (Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond, EKRE) is a nationalist and right-wing populist political party in Estonia led by Martin Helme.

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Eesti Energia

Eesti Energia AS is a public limited energy company in Estonia with its headquarters in Tallinn. Viru Keemia Grupp and Eesti Energia are electric power companies of Estonia and oil shale companies of Estonia.

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Eesti Päevaleht

(Estonia Daily) is a major daily Estonian newspaper, from the same publishers as the weekly Eesti Ekspress.

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Eesti Rahvusringhääling

Eesti Rahvusringhääling (ERR) – Estonian Public Broadcasting – is a publicly funded and owned radio and television organisation created in Estonia on 1 June 2007 to take over the functions of the formerly separate Eesti Raadio (ER) (Estonian Radio) and Eesti Televisioon (ETV) (Estonian Television), under the terms of the Estonian National Broadcasting Act.

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Electricity generation

Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy.

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Energy in Estonia

Energy in Estonia has heavily depended on fossil fuels.

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Esimene Eesti Põlevkivitööstus

Esimene Eesti Põlevkivitööstus (literally: First Estonian Oil Shale Industry) was an oil shale company located in Kohtla-Järve, Estonia. Viru Keemia Grupp and Esimene Eesti Põlevkivitööstus are Kohtla-Järve, oil shale companies of Estonia and synthetic fuel companies.

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Estonia

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

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Estonian Centre Party

The Estonian Centre Party (Eesti Keskerakond, EK) is a populist political party in Estonia.

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Estonian Declaration of Independence

The Estonian Declaration of Independence, also known as the Manifesto to the Peoples of Estonia (Manifest Eestimaa rahvastele), is the founding act which established the independent democratic Republic of Estonia on 24 February 1918.

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Fortum

Fortum Oyj is a Finnish state-owned energy company located in Espoo, Finland.

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Galoter process

The Galoter process (also known as TSK, UTT, or SHC; its newest modifications are called Enefit and Petroter) is a shale oil extraction technology for the production of shale oil, a type of synthetic crude oil.

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German occupation of Estonia during World War II

In the course of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invaded Estonia in July–December 1941, and occupied the country until 1944.

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Ida-Viru County

Ida-Viru County ("East Viru county". Ida-Viru maakond or Ida-Virumaa) is one of 15 counties of Estonia.

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Isamaa

Isamaa is a Christian-democratic and national-conservative political party in Estonia.

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Jüri Ratas's second cabinet

Jüri Ratas's second cabinet was the 50th cabinet of Estonia, in office from 29 April 2019 to 14 January 2021.

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Kiviter process

The Kiviter process is an above ground retorting technology for shale oil extraction.

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Kohtla-Järve

Kohtla-Järve is a city and municipality in northeastern Estonia, founded in 1924 and incorporated as a town in 1946.

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Kohtla-Järve Power Plant

The Kohtla-Järve Power Plant (Kohtla-Järve soojuselektrijaam) is an oil shale-fired power plant in Kohtla-Järve, Estonia, about 15 km to north-west of the Ahtme Power Plant. Viru Keemia Grupp and Kohtla-Järve Power Plant are Kohtla-Järve.

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Kontinentale Öl

Kontinentale Öl AG (Konti Öl) was a German oil company during World War II.

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Linköping University

Linköping University (LiU) is a public research university based in Linköping, Sweden.

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Occupation of the Baltic states

The occupation of the Baltic states was a period of annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania begun by the Soviet Union in 1940, continued for three years by Nazi Germany after it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, and finally resumed by the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991.

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Oil Shale (journal)

Oil Shale is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in petrology, especially concerning oil shale.

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Oil shale industry

The oil shale industry is an industry of mining and processing of oil shale—a fine-grained sedimentary rock, containing significant amounts of kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds), from which liquid hydrocarbons can be manufactured.

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Põhjarannik

Põhjarannik is a newspaper published in Estonia.

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Postimees

is an Estonian daily newspaper established on 5 June 1857, by Johann Voldemar Jannsen.

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Privately held company

A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Schaltbau Group

The Schaltbau Group is a group of mechanical and electrical engineering companies specialising in transportation related products, including automatic door systems for moving vehicles, level crossing equipment, electric connectors and switchgear and safety and warning equipment.

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Shale oil

Shale oil is an unconventional oil produced from oil shale rock fragments by pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution.

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Shale oil extraction is an industrial process for unconventional oil production.

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Tallinn University of Technology

Established in 1918, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech; Tallinna Tehnikaülikool) is the only technical university in Estonia.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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United States Department of Energy

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy-related research, and energy conservation.

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VKG Elektrivõrgud

VKG Elektrivõrgud (VKG EV, former name: Narva Elektrivõrgud) is an electricity distribution company in Estonia. Viru Keemia Grupp and VKG Elektrivõrgud are electric power companies of Estonia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viru_Keemia_Grupp

Also known as RAS Kiviter, Slantsehim, Slantsekhim, VKG Oil, VKG Soojus, Viru Chemical Group.

Viru Keemia Grupp, the Glossary

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See also

Chemical companies of Estonia

Electric power companies of Estonia

Kohtla-Järve

Oil shale companies of Estonia

Synthetic fuel companies

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