The government of Ukraine hopes that the results 2014 gas production by country will be 20 billion 495 million cubic meters, and the Consumption of natural gas will reach 53 billion 033 million cubic meters.
about it reported in the order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine " on approval of the forecast supply and distribution of natural gas in Ukraine in 2014, " reports the Telegraph. So, the document says, in the first quarter of domestic gas production in Ukraine is 5 billion 358 million cubic meters, in the 2-m - 5 billion 030 million cubic meters, in the 3rd quarter 5 billion 057 million cubic meters in the fourth quarter will be 5 billion 050 million cubic meters of gas. Natural gas consumption in the first quarter of 2014 amounted to 18 billion 601 million cubic meters, in the 2-m - 13 billion 552 million cubic meters, a 3-m - 6 billion 739 million cubic meters in the fourth will be 14 billion 141 million cubic meters. The main supplier of gas to Ukraine is Russia, but Kyiv tries to minimize the share of Russian fuel, relying on their own production and gas from the European Union. On the first day of the week it was announced that the accumulation of natural gas in underground storage (UGS) Ukraine since the beginning of the heating season decreased by 24, 5 percent, or 4, 04 billion cubic meters. At the end of October, the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller said that Gazprom estimates the amount of gas in underground storage of Ukraine in eleven billion cubic metres, passing the winter need 18 billion cubic meters. Remember, the tripartite negotiations in Brussels, Russia, the EU and Ukraine signed the final agreement on gas supply and transit until March 2015. A legally recorded consensus, the cost of gas for Ukraine will be 378 dollars for 1 thousand Cubic meters until the end of 2014 and 385 USD per 1 thousand Cubic meters until March 2015. Last week the official representative of Gazprom Sergei Kupriyanov said that the Company received from the " Naftogaz of Ukraine " advance payment for 1 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia for delivery in early winter, now awaits the receipt of the application at the beginning of the supply. Later Russian energy Minister Alexander Novak said that Ukraine still need about 3 billion cubic meters of gas for the normal passage of winter.


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