Ukraine has no plans to buy Turkmen gas and Russian oil in 2013
Ukraine does not plan to buy gas from Turkmenistan in 2013, reads an offering memorandum on the issue of eurobonds by Ukraine.
"Since early 2006, gas has not been supplied to Ukraine under direct contracts from Turkmenistan. The government does not plan that the deliveries will resume in 2013. Earlier Turkmenistan confirmed that the country has the resources required to resume supplies to Ukraine. However, Turkmenistan's position is that first the conditions of its transit should be agreed with Russia," reads the document.
The operator of Ukrainian oil pipelines – public joint-stock company Ukrtransnafta – said that it is not expected that Russian oil will be delivered to the Ukrainian market in 2013.
"According to official data from Russia, there are no plans to supply Russian oil by pipeline to Ukrainian oil refineries," reads the company's report.
As reported, in 2011, Dmytro Firtash's OstChem Holding imported natural gas from the Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan) to Ukraine in 2011. However, since 2012, the company has imported only Russian gas to Ukraine.
Supplies of Russian oil to Ukrainian oil refineries ended from March 2012.
