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Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that the interconnector, which will integrate gas transportations systems of Poland and Ukraine will allow buying 8 billion cubic meters of gas from the EU annually, an UNIAN correspondent reported from the prime minister’s Kyiv meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday.
"We have a joint project, Mr. President, on the construction of an interconnector between Poland and Ukraine. If we build the interconnector, you will bring in a lot of gas. We'll be buying a lot of gas, up to 8 billion cubic meters," Yatsenyuk told the Polish President.
UNIAN memo. The parties expect the project be completed by 2020.
Poland-Ukraine gas interconnector project will include construction of a 1.5 km-long gas pipeline from Germanovichi to the Polish-Ukrainian border and a 110 km-long part of a pipeline from Bilche-Volytsya to the Ukrainian-Polish border.
Read alsoUkraine, Poland to integrate gas transportation systemsIn addition, a compressor station in Strahchocina will be built in Poland, a measuring station, and stretches of pipeline: Germanovichi - Strachocina, Strachocina - Pogorskaia Wolia, Pogorskaia Wolia – Tworzen, and Tworow – Tworzen.
The integration of the Ukrainian and Polish gas transportation systems will not only increase the volume of gas flow from the EU via Poland, but also ensure the storage of the European gas in the Ukrainian underground storage facilities.
As expected, both GTSs will also be upgraded in order to increase their capacity in the direction of Ukraine to 8 bcm per year; and from Ukraine to Poland - to 7 bcm annually.
Maximum technical capacity of gas supplies from Poland to Ukraine is 1.5 bcm per year, according to the experts.