Chief Commercial Officer of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine Yuriy Vitrenko says claims filed by his company against Russia's gas giant Gazprom as part of litigation on gas transit supplies, which is being considered by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, grow by $1 million to $3 million every day.
The 2nd Ukraine Silk Road Forum was held in Kyiv on Thursday, bringing together officials, business leaders and public figures from Ukraine, China, and other countries along the “Belt and Road” route, who lauded the role of the forum in boosting Ukraine- China cooperation over the past year and drew a roadmap for the future, Xinhua reports.
Transit of natural gas through the Ukrainian gas transmission system (GTS) in January-October 2017 increased by 18.5% year-over-year (y-o-y), to 77.4 billion cubic meters, according to Ukrtransgaz, Ukraine's state-run gas transport system operator.
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch estimates that Ukraine may lose US$2.7 billion in annual transit revenue due to the launch of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to transport Russian gas across the Baltic Sea in circumvention of Ukraine.
Transit shipments of natural gas through Ukraine's gas transportation system (GTS) grew by 23.5% in January-September 2017 year-over-year, to 70.4 billion cubic meters, according to the press service of the Ukrainian GTS operator, Ukrtransgaz.
Energy giant NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine has spoken out for inviting a European partner in the management of the Ukrainian gas transport system (GTS) so that European companies could buy gas on Ukraine's eastern border and ship it onto the European market, thus transit shipments of gas will continue after the current gas transit contract between Ukraine and Russia's Gazprom expires.
Transit shipments of Russian natural gas through the Ukrainian gas transport system (GTS) in January-August 2017 grew by 23.4% year-over-year, to 61.95 billion cubic meters, according to the press service of the Ukrtransgaz company, which operates the GTS.
Transit shipments of natural gas from Russia through the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) grew by 22.8% in January-July 2017, to 52.3 billion cubic meters (bcm) year-over-year, according to the press service of the state-run gas transport system operator Ukrtransgaz.
Transit shipments of natural gas from Russia through the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) grew by 21% in January-June 2017, to 45.7 billion cubic meters year-over-year, according to the press service of the new gas transport system operator PJSC Trunk Gas Pipelines of Ukraine.
Transit of goods to the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic through the territory of Ukraine will be performed only upon agreement with the National Food Safety Agency of the Republic of Moldova, according to the Ukrainian State Food Safety and Consumer Protection Service.