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Ukrtransnafta links the suspension of oil deliveries to Kremenchuk oil refinery plant with the accident on part of the pipeline, while NJSC Naftogaz Ukraine stresses that it deliberately halted the oil transportation to Ukraine’s only operating refinery.
Chief of Ukrtransnafta Roman Sydorak explained the inability to provide services on oil transportation from Ukrnafta oilfields to Kremenchuk refinery with the accident on the pipeline, according to the Ukrtransnafta’s letter, available to UNIAN.
At the same time, the executive director of Naftogaz Ukraine Andriy Pasishnyk (Naftogaz owns 100% shares of Ukrtransnafta) has told the UNN news agency that the pumping of raw materials to the Kremenchuk refinery has been blocked intentionally.
"The state in the person of Ukrtransnafta stopped pumping oil to the plant and forwarded Ukrnafta’s to its own needs," said Pasishnyk, according to the agency.
Kremenchug refinery allegedly refused to give away Ukrtransnafta’s technological oil, which had been pumped out of the state-owned oil pipeline from the zone of the Anti-Terrorist Operation last spring.
As UNIAN reported earlier today, on July 31, both Ukrnafta and Kremenchuk refinery claimed the threat of a halt of their production because of the actions of state-owned Ukrtransnafta, which suspended the reception and transportation of oil, despite the pre-payment of services.
UNIAN reported earlier with reference to Naftogaz of Ukraine, on March 19, the company's supervisory board dismissed Oleksandr Lazorko from his duties as the Chairman of the Board of Ukrtransnafta and replaced him with a former employee of the Security Service, Yuriy Miroshnikov who had a dubious reputation.
On April 23, Naftogaz has appointed Roman Sidorak new head of Ukrtransnafta.
The market players earlier noted that behind the scandal around the state company Ukrtransnafta is a group of companies Continuum, controlled by a businessman and MP Ihor Yeremeyev.
According to them, Yeremeyev’s interest in Ukrtransnafta is obvious as he tries to strike at the refinery segment, trying to monopolize the market of oil products sales.
Prior to his appointment as acting executive director of Naftogaz Ukraine, Andriy Pasishnik worked as an assistant to an MP Ihor Yeremeyev.