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Photo: GTS (Naftogaz press service)
On October 4, the daily volumes of Russian gas transit through the territory of Ukraine increased to 174 million cubic meters. m. This is the maximum stipulated by the contract with Gazprom for all of 2020.
This was reported by the press service of the Ukrainian operator GTS.
As noted in the press service, since the beginning of the year, the traffic volume has reached 40 billion cubic meters.
OGTSU CEO Serhiy Makogon said that the Ukrainian GTS can transport significantly more natural gas and that the company is constantly looking for new market products, services that can provide even more energy security guarantees to Ukrainians and partners in The EU.
“We are closely following the development of events in Germany with the Nord Stream 2 project and we hope that our partners will see the potential to increase the use of existing infrastructure, as stated in all EU documents,” he added.
As a reminder, the Ukrainian GTS operator pumped 39.5 billion cubic meters in 9 months of 2020. m of gas. This is 40% less than in the same period last year (65.4 billion cubic meters).
The joint agreement between Ukraine and Russia on gas, reached on December 20, 2019, does not provide for the direct supply of Russian gas to Ukraine.
Note that at the beginning of October 2020, the volume of natural gas in the underground gas storage facilities (UGS) of Ukraine reached 27.9 billion cubic meters. m) As stated in “Ukrtransgaz”, Ukraine can receive additional income from the sale of gas abroad. The company excludes that in case of a favorable situation on the European market, Ukraine will start its own gas exports to EU countries.
