Experts: Ukraine failed to prepare for the heating season

Ukraine does Not have time due to the reverse supply to build up the necessary volume of gas reserves for the successful completion of the heating season, the country may Not be enough at least 10 billion cubic meters of gas, informed the Ukrainian magazine " News. Reporter referring to specialists.
according to the Association of European operators of underground gas storage facilities, on the 17th of September in Ukrainian stores were 16, 32 billion cubic meters of fuel. To survive the cold, have More than 20 billion cubic metres, in addition to get this amount by reversing the supply of the EU Ukraine has No time, is quoted by the magazine ITAR-TASS. According to the vision specialists, fuel consumption can make a big difference in cold winter." I assume the pessimistic scenario, that is, from the cold winter, but it seems this will be the case. This Usually increases the fuel consumption by 5 billion cubic meters. Plus we don't go on the expected 10 billion cubic meters of gas for the year due to the reverse, a maximum of 5-6 billion Here yet (minus) 5 billion ", - explained the situation to the head of the Supervisory Board of " Kyivenergo " Ivan Plachkov. He said that " the country is living an imaginary feeling that everything will be fine." Need a total audit of all available energy resources. Not only gas, coal and fuel oil, but also secondary energy resources, alternative fuel ", - noticed Plachkov. He also believes that the transition TES on alternative fuels will Not help to rectify the situation. Coal and oil in the deficit on the Ukrainian warehouses have only 1, 7 million tons of anthracite at a rate of 3-3 .5 million tons, the magazine writes. Australian and South African Coal is too expensive. Even if you manage to adjust the supply of fuel from areas controlled proclaimed DND and LNR, volumes will not be enough: 95 state mines of Donbass only 24 were operating normally." 13 mines completely destroyed, among them are those who produced nearly 1 million tonnes of coal per year ", - said Deputy Minister of energy and coal industry Yuriy Zhukov. The magazine also reports that Ukrainian enterprises have signed on Tuesday a contract on supplies to Ukraine 5, 6 million tons of imported coal to the end of the year, for example, from Russia. Remember, June 16 from 10. 00 GMT Gazprom has entered the mode of payment for the supply and stop supplying gas to Ukraine. The pipeline is only intended for transit to the European Union blue fuel in the amount of 185 million cubic meters per day. For information on 16 September, the debt of Naftogaz of Ukraine to Gazprom is 5, 3 billion dollars.

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