Department of state: U.S. until not have the opportunity to carry out direct deliveries of gas to Ukraine
USA until do not have the necessary capacity To direct gas supplies to Ukraine, said the special envoy and coordinator for international energy issues, the chief of the Bureau of energy resources in the State Department Amos, Hochstein.
"we haven't finished export capacity. 1st terminal will be ready to start exporting by the end of 2015. Others will be put into use Within the next three to five years. As for the direct supply of liquefied gas to Ukraine, For this you need power For his reception, regasification terminal or installation. And that's just the problem. Because certain countries do not want to miss the liquefied gas through the Bosporus, "said Hochstein in an interview to the weekly" Zerkalo Nedeli ".
According to the envoy of the state Department, the first exports of U.S. liquefied natural gas to international markets will begin by the end of 2015 or early 2016 and will go to Japan and India.
according to Ukrtransgaz, the operator of the Ukrainian gas transportation system of Ukraine since the beginning of February imported more than 1 billion cubic meters of natural gas, more gas came from Europe - 624 million cubic meters, the rest of Russia. For comparison: during the same period of the previous year For the needs of Ukrainian clients were imported 1, 276 billion cubic meters of natural gas, moreover, the entire amount received from the Russian Federation.