Eustream: the reverse gas to Ukraine until not reached half power

Alexander Kuranov. Pipeline capacity Vojny-Uzhgorod After 10 days of testing, reverse mode, the gas supplies to Ukraine reached eleven million cubic meters per day, which is less than half of the amount of the planned start of commercial shipments of 2 September, said Last news official authorized operator of the gas transportation system of Slovakia - organization Eustream Gabrielle beer.

" The commercial application of pipeline Vojny-Uzhgorod in the reverse mode, scheduled for September 2. It is planned that by this date, the pipeline will have the opportunity to take up to 27 million cubic meters of gas per day. After 10 days of testing Bandwidth pipes reached as long as eleven million cubic meters per day. I may add that the Slovak side all the necessary technical work is performed in the planned time frame, " said beer.

The company Eustream Together With the operator of the Ukrainian gas transportation system " Ukrtransgaz " began on August 16 checks in reverse mode at the compressor station in the border of the Slovak village of velk? hub and the reconstructed pipeline Vojny-Uzhgorod. The test phase has absorbed the run, check the reliability and the operating bandwidth of the pipeline.

According to the beer After the beginning of September 2 commercial applications of the pipeline in the control mode of delivery of gas for six months will be accompanied by a technical testing and debugging of all system components to the desired settings. On March 1, 2015, the pipeline Vojny-Uzhgorod obliged to operate in the normal mode.

Experts Eustream first examined the technical condition of the pipeline Uzhgorod-Vojny built fifteen years ago. A large part of the transit capacity of the new pipeline until 2019 bought Ukrainian state company Naftogaz. A number of European firms have provided binding bids for pumping gas through the pipe.

Gazprom June 16, translated " Naftogaz " to advance, and now in the Ukrainian gas transport system are only transit volumes destined for Europe.


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