Naftogaz proposes using vacant facilities to import gas from EU
Naftogaz Ukrainy has proposed that all companies that want to import gas to Ukraine from Europe can use vacant gas transport pipelines on the border with the European Union, the press service of the holding reported on Friday.
Naftogaz said it is ready to discuss the conditions for using the booked pipelines for the supply of gas from the EU to the Ukrainian border.
"As a guarantee gas supplier for all categories of consumers we are obliged first to think that enough gas was imported to the country for the next period until the end of the heating season. Naftogaz in no way should be the only gas importer to Ukraine, this is wrong. We're ready to promote imports of additional volumes of gas that is required to ensure the country's balance of gas by private suppliers until the end of next heating season. We ask everyone who wants to import gas to address us," reads the report, citing Naftogaz Board Chairman Andriy Kobolev.
The press service said that since early 2015 99% of imported gas was supplied to the country by Naftogaz Ukrainy. The share of gas sold to industrial consumers who pay the full price for imported gas was no more than 30%.
Private traders who sell gas to industrial enterprises at the market price should create gas stocks in underground storage facilities in the summer period to cover the needs of their clients in winter.
