Two selling natural gas to Western organizations came to the direct delivery of imported fuel to consumers in Ukraine, said the head of the organization "Naftogaz of Ukraine" Andrey Kobelev.
"on the Ukrainian gas market begins to work tandem 2 Western gas traders, which for the first time took advantage of our offer of gas imports to Ukraine (not to our border, and followed a customs clearance and resale to consumers within the country) ", ? wrote it on the page in Facebook.
According to Koboleva, they start to work, " despite the difficult economic situation in Ukraine, the regulation of hard currency operations, the lack of sufficient predictability of the future course of market reforms ". The head of Naftogaz also noticed that the gas traders agreed to pay an import duty added to the Price that is charged Upon the import of gas. Thus KOBOLEV did not reveal the names of the organizations, pointing to the privacy policy. According to the organization " Ukrtransgaz ", from the beginning of 2015, Ukraine imported eleven, 8 billion cubic meters of gas, 8 billion cubic meters was purchased in the EU ? for example, 1, 031 billion cubic meters of natural gas were imported in the last month of summer from Slovakia. In early August the head of the NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine" Andriy KOBOLEV said that Ukraine ought to double purchases of gas in reverse to stocks in its underground storage (UGS) facilities, the technical opportunity for this. On the same day, "Ukrtransgaz" reported that in the period from January to July 2015 Ukraine imported 10, 7 billion cubic meters of natural gas, of which 64% (6, 9 billion cubic meters) ? from EU countries. On 31 July, the operators of gas transportation systems of the three countries (Gaz-System, Eustream and FGSZ) showed data about the fact that European imports of gas to Ukraine from Poland, Hungary and Slovakia in July amounted to 568, 3 million cubic meters in June, Ukraine imported 790, 2 million cubic meters of gas from Europe, the reverse gas supplies from Europe to Ukraine fell in July in 1, 4 times. The head of Ukrainian government Arseniy Yatsenyuk in the process of speech in Parliament declared that Ukraine 70% is provided by gas from the EU. Gas purchased by Ukraine in the European Union, only from a formal point of view is " European ", but in fact it's the same Gas from Russia, which traders resell the EU to Kiev. Europe is actively spends the accumulation of gas from its underground storage facilities due to restrictions on gas supplies from Russia and the reverse gas supplies to Ukraine.

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