Gas imports from Russia for the first eight months of 2015 decreased almost threefold ? from 14 to 3, 8 billion cubic meters, the calculation of the loss in money of Gazprom on the Ukrainian market can be estimated at 2, 5 billion dollars, said the head of the office of energy independence of Ukraine Ivan Nadein.
The company "Gazprom" in January-August of the current year fell short of 2, 5 billion due to a significant reduction in consumption from Ukraine to the Russian "blue fuel" because of the increase in purchases of reverse gas from EU, informs UNIAN referring to the letter of the division.
"for the first eight months of 2015 gas Imports from Russia decreased almost threefold ? from 14 to 3, 8 billion cubic meters. In the calculation of the loss in money of Gazprom on the Ukrainian market can be estimated at 2, 5 billion dollars", - has declared Nadein. According to him, this year Ukraine has saved about $ 1 billion on the procurement of gas due to lower gas prices and reduction in imports. In comparison with the same period last year, purchases in January-August fell by 3, 3 billion cubic meters. The specialist said that over the past year, the structure of import gas to Ukraine has changed significantly. So, two-thirds of natural gas Ukraine buys in EU States, mostly in Slovakia, whereas in the summer of 2014 about 90% of gas is imported from Russia. Thus Nadein stressed that Ukraine is not ready for the heating season, as in the vault under the ground need to pump about 3-4 billion cubic meters. He also said that in 2014 for the purchase of gas Ukraine has spent 5, 7 billion. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that the Ukrainian underground gas storages (UGS) accumulated 14, 5 billion cubic meters of gas, but not enough to get through the heating season. The press service of the organization "Ukrtransgaz" has published the reporting data for August: during the month, Ukraine imported from Slovakia to more than 1 billion cubic meters of natural gas. Analysis of Gazprom, Ukraine At the current level of pumping in a vault under ground gas at the level of 53 million cubic meters will be able to upload to winter, 16, 8 billion cubic meters of gas. The head of Gazprom Alexey Miller has informed on Tuesday that it is now in the vault under the ground of Ukraine uploaded 14, 4 billion cubic meters. According to his statement, the daily volume of injection, which Ukraine provides for the expense of own extraction and reverse insufficient to reach the level of UGS to 19 billion cubic meters of gas by the beginning of the eligibility period ? of the heating season. On July 31, the Head of Ukrainian government Arseniy Yatsenyuk said about the critical situation in the energy sector of the country, noting that the Ministry of energy and the organization is not ready to supply people warm this winter.

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