Private energy company ERU Trading has for the first time imported natural gas from the U.S. to Ukraine via Polish LNG (liquified natural gas) terminal and placed it in the underground storage facilities (USFs), according to the company's press service.
The first vessel carrying 62 tonnes of steam coal, which last week sailed off from Baltimore, should arrive in Ukraine before mid-September, Ukrainian ambassador to the United States Valery Chaly told Dzerkalo Tyzhnia weekly.
The first shipment of anthracite coal from the United States, supplied by XCoal Energy and Resources, totaling 85,000 tonnes should arrive in Ukraine in early September, the embassy of Ukraine in the United States wrote on Facebook.
Washington has got a new way to counter Russian influence in Europe as it is set to become the world’s third-largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by 2020.
The company concluded with the U.S.-based Xcoal Energy&Resources a contract for the supply of 700,000 tonnes of anthracite coal by year-end, Centrenergo CEO Oleh Kozemko said during the contract’s presentation at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv on Monday.