Naftogaz: contestants did not want to participate in the establishment of the stock gas
Private companies-producers of gas for Ukraine painfully reacted to the proposal of " Naftogaz " to download 50% of the extracted gas in storage under the ground (UGS) until January 1, 2015, de facto they did not want to participate in the creation of a reserve gas for the state, said in a statement released on the first day of the weekend interview with the weekly " Zerkalo Nedeli. Ukraine Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz of Ukraine Andriy Korolev.
" Private miners painfully reacted to the proposal of " Naftogaz " to upload up to 1 January 2015 in UGS 50% of the extracted gas. De facto they did not want to participate in the creation of a reserve gas for the state, " said Korolev.
According to him, currently in Ukrainian underground storage facilities around 16 billion cubic meters of gas. Of them " Naftogaz " owns about 12 billion cubic meters.
" By the beginning of the heating season, we hope that will make the resource accounts for More than 17 billion cubic meters ", - said Korolev.
The Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz added that in the winter season Private organizations will have at their own disposal, 2, 7 billion cubic meters of gas, assuming a clean extraction of private organizations and gas production contracts mutual activities with state-owned companies. Most of this amount will be delivered to industrial consumers under direct contracts. The cost for them is determined by the national regulator and should be market-based, that is, to correspond to the prices at which Ukraine can buy imported gas.
After long and fruitless negotiations Gazprom on June 16, translated " Naftogaz " to advance, and now in the Ukrainian gas transport system are only transit volumes destined for Europe. As long as the transit is carried out in contractual settings, however, and Gazprom, and the Commission did not rule out any issues in the winter, when Ukraine will spend accumulated in its own storage resources. According to the received information of the Russian side, for normal autumn-winter period and ensure stable transit Ukraine ought to have in their own UGS approximately 18, 5 billion cubic meters of gas.