The Russian Federation and its largest gas producer Gazprom are sponsoring groups of influence in Ukraine effectively blocking the efforts to boost own gas extraction, head of the board of the national oil and gas holding company Naftogaz of Ukraine, Andriy Kobolyev said on air of one of the Ukrainian TV channels.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman says the growth of domestic gas production in Ukraine will allow achieving energy independence by 2020 and reducing gas price by 20-30%.
Ukraine has taken a significant step towards energy independence this month by adopting new conditions for gas extraction companies, which open the potential for Ukraine to become part of an eastern European gas hub and even a gas exporter, according to the Financial Times (FT).
Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it has signed a contract with Ukraine’s State Enterprise National Nuclear Energy Generation Company Energoatom to deliver important monitoring instrumentation systems to four units at the Zaporizhia power plant, Business Wire wrote.