Kiev acknowledges the difficulties with the production of shale gas because of special operations
The Ukrainian government acknowledges that the shale gas production in the East of Ukraine now is problematic in connection with the activities carried out there by Ukrainian special operation of the militia.
" It is difficult to extract gas to our foreign partners in Slavyansk. There are temporary problems ", - said the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk at the meeting of Parliament on Tuesday, noting that in this area is the main gas fields.
Ukraine plans to implement two project on extraction of shale gas. Last year they were signed agreements On production sharing with the Anglo-Dutch Shell and Chevron. The head of the Ministry of energy of Ukraine Yuriy Prodan, first claimed that fresh, the authorities do not wish to reconsider the agreement and suggest not to break them.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.
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