Naftogaz Ukrainy offers gas transport capacity for imports from Europe

Naftogaz Ukrainy is inviting interested companies to use available gas transportation capacity reserved by the company at the Budintse metering station on the Ukrainian-Slovak border, the state oil and gas company said on Tuesday.

"Naftogaz is inviting companies wanting to import natural gas from Europe to Ukraine along the Slovak route to request discussion of conditions for the use of available capacity. Naftogaz is prepared to offer suppliers a flexible mechanism of cooperation depending on the volumes and timetables of gas supplies," the company said.

Interested companies are being invited to prepare a request in the form of an official letter to Naftogaz's CEO signed by authorized persons, with a seal and contact information. The request must indicate the anticipated amount and timeframe for the use of gas transport capacity, as well as the shipper code of the supplier in the system of the operator of Slovakia's gas transport system, Eustream.

If there is available capacity in the specified time period, the company will send the counterparty a list of documents needed to conduct due diligence of the counterparty and a draft confidentiality agreement. Following these procedures, Naftogaz will make a commercial offer to the counterparty.

Naftogaz Ukraine has bought up most of the outbound transport capacity on the Voyany-Uzhgorod gas pipeline from Eustream until 2019 for supplies of natural gas along the route from the European gas market to Ukraine.

Imports from Slovakia can total up to 41 million cubic meters per day, but in October the maximum request did not exceed 16.1 mcm.