Development of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline, set to bypass Ukraine and run along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, is now in full swing, Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolev told a roundtable on Ukraine’s energy security held in Kyiv Monday, an UNIAN correspondent reports.
CEO of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine Andriy Kobolev says the issues of the dismissal of Ukrtransgaz President Ihor Prokopiv and appointment of Polish national Pawel Jozef Stanczak as new Ukrtransgaz president have caused complicated discussions between the government, the Naftogaz management and the supervisory board, according to the Ukrainian news outlet Novoye Vremya.
CEO of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine Andriy Kobolev has announced that the German concern Siemens, which was supposed to supply gas compressors to Ukraine for the country's gas transportation system, stopped the shipments because of a possible loss of the Russian market.
Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolev says transit shipments of Russian natural gas via the Ukrainian gas transport system (GTS) is one of the factors holding back Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Compensation that the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom will be obliged to pay to the Ukrainian side for natural gas earlier sold at non-market prices, according to the award by the Stockholm arbitration tribunal, will significantly reduce the volume of debt of the National Oil and Gas Holding Naftogaz of Ukraine before the Russian company, Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolev said on air of one of Ukraine’s TV channels.
Naftogaz of Ukraine CEO Andriy Kobolev has announced that the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has ruled that the price of natural gas Ukraine bought from Russia's gas giant Gazprom at in 2011-2015 should be reviewed retroactively, and ordered that the review should cover the period starting from 2014.