Naftogaz boosts gas imports from Europe by 1.5 times since year-start

According to the report, in 2017, Naftogaz bought gas from 12 European suppliers from Germany, Switzerland, France, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Poland and Italy. None of these companies delivered more than 30% of the volume of imported gas.

It is reported that in January-September 2017, Naftogaz bought a total of 17.5 bcm of gas, which is 3.1 bcm more y-o-y.

In the structure of gas volumes purchased this year, the share of imports amounted to 41%, while the rest 59% were purchased at Ukraine's largest gas producer, PJSC Ukrgazvydobuvannia.

Read alsoUkrnafta wants to sell gas on Ukraine's domestic marketThe gas purchased from Ukrgazvydobuvannia is fully used to provide household consumers, religious organizations as well as heat energy producers to ensure central heating and hot water supply services to the population and religious organizations. In addition, Naftogaz sends the necessary volumes of imported gas to ensure the remaining needs of domestic consumers in gas and heat. At the same time, Naftogaz does not supply gas directly to the population. The resource bought by the company is resold by regional gas supply companies according to Decree No. 187 of the Cabinet of Ministers of March 22, 2017," the company said.

Read alsoStockholm Arbitration's decision on Naftogaz-Gazprom dispute to be delivered in late NovAs UNIAN reported earlier, in 2016, Ukraine imported 11.1 bcm of gas from Europe alone. In particular, 9.1 bcm arrived from Slovakia, 1 bcm from Hungary, and 1 bcm from Poland.

Last year, Ukraine reduced its gas consumption by 4% against 2015, to 30.3 bcm. In late November 2015, Ukraine refused to purchase natural gas from Russia's Gazprom.

In general, the country doubled gas imports from Europe in 2015 from 2014, to 10.3 bcm, reducing the purchase of hydrocarbons from Russia by 56.5%.