Alexander Kuranov. Check the reverse mode, the gas supplies to Ukraine were launched at the compressor station in the Slovak village of velk?-hub at the border line With Ukraine in the first day of the weekend, said Last news official authorized Slovak organization Eustream Gabrielle beer.
" The operator of the gas transportation system of Slovakia - Company Eustream Together With the Ukrainian party started on Saturday at 10am CET test in reverse mode at the compressor station in the village of velk?-hub and the reconstructed pipeline Uzhgorod-Vojny. The test phase has absorbed the run, check the reliability and the operating bandwidth of the pipeline. Commercial use of the pipeline will commence on 2 September, " said beer.
according to the interviewer Agency, the Company Eustream initially will carry out reverse gas supplies to Ukraine in the control mode, which provides for the delivery of 3, 2 billion cubic meters per year. On March 1, 2015, the pipeline will be able to deliver at the highest capacity of 10 billion cubic meters per year.
Experts Eustream has held for the past three months, a comprehensive review of the technical wealth of Uzhgorod gas pipeline-Vojny built fifteen years ago, but never have been in use, and also paved the additional 400-meter pipeline to the Ukrainian border. A large part of the transit capacity of the new pipeline until 2019 bought Ukrainian state company Naftogaz.
After long and fruitless negotiations with Russian 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.
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