Ukraine sees opportunities for cooperation with U.S. in energy sector – Groysman

This includes the extraction of natural gas, Ukraine's GTS management, nuclear energy, etc.

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman says Ukraine sees a number of opportunities for deepening cooperation with the United States of America in the energy sector.

"We see a wide range of opportunities for deepening cooperation in the energy sector between the United States and Ukraine. This includes Ukrainian natural gas production, gas transmission system [GTS] management, nuclear energy, and other areas," the prime minister said during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry in Kyiv on November 12.

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As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine transported 93 bcm of gas to the European countries in 2017, which was a record high amount in the past years.

Transit shipments of natural gas through the Ukrainian gas transmission system in 2016 grew by 23% from 2015, to 82.2 bcm.

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