MOSCOW, 15 Sep. The gas transportation system of Ukraine (GTS) can be optimized for the domestic market, but as a result, Europe will lose one of the transit routes, said the head of the country's energy ministry Herman Galuschenko at a meeting with the state secretary of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy of Germany Andreas Feicht. His statements are posted on the agency's website. According to the Ukrainian minister, the main «risk» for Europe's energy security lies in the Russian project Nord Stream 2. He expressed the opinion that the redirection of blue fuel flows would allegedly provoke a shortage of gas in some countries of this part of the world. «If transit volumes are insufficiently loaded, the Ukrainian GTS will have to be optimized to transfer about 30 billion cubic meters of gas only on the domestic market. The EU will lose a reliable, flexible and an independent route, and this will give Russia even more leverage on geopolitics, «Galushchenko noted. It is alleged that Ukraine's gas transportation system is currently underutilized, it has significant reserve capacities in the amount of more than one hundred billion cubic meters per year.
Neighbors envy: Ukraine is confident that it will survive the winter According to the ministry's calculations, when the new Russian gas pipeline is launched and taking into account the already operating Nord Stream and Turkish Stream, insignificant volumes will remain for transit through Ukraine — no more than 10-15 billion cubic meters per year. despite the fact that the last two pipelines are currently operating at full capacity. «But Europe does not have enough gas, and the price on European gas markets has reached a maximum over the past 13 years,» the message on the website of the Ministry of Energy says. the state secretary was the synchronization of the Ukrainian energy system with the energy system of the European Union.
The British called for a 'hat off' to Putin for Nord Stream 2 «Consolidation of our energy markets is the only solution that will enable secure energy supply, stable and reliable operation of the energy system and further development of green energy, as well as decarbonization of the energy sector», — added Galushchenko. «Nord Stream — 2» — a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany with a capacity of 55 billion cubic meters per year. The last pipe of the second string was sunk to the bottom of the Baltic Sea last week. According to the chairman of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, the company will start fuel through the pipeline already this heating season. In Russia, it has been repeatedly explained that Nord Stream 2 is a commercial project. Moscow is also ready to continue gas transit through Ukraine, but this depends on many factors, including the volume of future European purchases.
July 21, 04:34 pm Infographics The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline: construction under the sanctions regime
