Nezhukhiv gas distribution station in the Stryisky district of the Lviv regionMOSCOW, February 1 Ukrainian gas transmission system after 2024, sporadic work awaits, such a forecast was made in his blog on the Korrespondent.net website by Yuri Korolchuk, co-founder of the Energy Strategies Fund. According to the expert, there are no further prospects for the GTS. conservation of the unused part of the gas transportation system of Ukraine. What does this mean? This means that the United States, the EU and Russia have already finally made it clear to the authorities in the form of Zelensky that after 2024 there may not be a transit agreement as such,» Korolchuk noted. The specialist suggested that it is possible the scenario for the existence of the GTS will be «something like acts of performance of work: pump three billion cubic meters — get money, and then pump three billion again in three months cubes — and you will get money again.» In the period between these three months of operation and financing, he expressed confidence. at the GTS of Ukraine, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kiev is in favor of extending the agreement on the transit of Russian gas after 2024. Under a five-year contract that Gazprom and Naftogaz signed at the end of 2019, the Russian company guarantees the pumping of 40 billion cubic meters of gas per year through Ukrainian territory. Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller stressed that the company is ready to continue gas transit through Ukraine and after 2024, based on the economic feasibility and technical condition of the Ukrainian GTS. At the same time, he pointed out that the volumes of transit would have to correspond to the new volumes of purchases of Russian gas by EU companies under new contracts.
