Ukraine’s national oil and gas holding Naftogaz of Ukraine and Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom are soon to launch negotiations on the implementation of decisions taken by the Stockholm Arbitration within the framework of the contract for the purchase of Russian gas, according to Yuriy Vitrenko, a chief commercial officer at Naftogaz, an UNIAN correspondent reports.
TrailStone Energy, the subsidiary of one of the world's largest energy traders - the U.S.-based TrailStone, intends to obtain from Ukrainian authorities a license for the supply of natural gas in Ukraine, the National Energy and Utilities Regulation Commission s (NEURC) reported on its website.
A subdivision of Ukraine's largest vertically integrated energy holding DTEK, owned by Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov, DTEK Oil&Gas, the producer of natural gas and gas condensate, expects to obtain Nov. 16 a license for natural gas supplies within Ukraine, according to a draft resolution of Ukraine's National Energy and Utilities Regulation Commission.
In the first half of 2017, Russian Gazprom delivered 1,389 billion cubic meters of gas to the self-proclaimed "DPR" ("Donetsk People’s Republic") and "LPR" ("Luhansk People’s Republic"). The price of Russian gas as of the first quarter of 2017 was $306.6 per 1,000 cubic meters, according to the data from Gazprom’s report for the second quarter, UAWire wrote.