LNG carrier Catalunya Spirit. File photoMOSCOW, Jun 7Ukraine is discussing with the United States the possibility of purchasing and financing supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) instead of pipeline gas, which the country buys in Europe, Naftogaz CEO Yuriy Vitrenko said. heating season, we will need to import up to $8 billion worth of gas, and that is exactly what we are discussing here in the US — financing for (purchasing — ed.) American LNG, which can replace the pipeline gas that we traditionally bought in Europe,» — Vitrenko said on the air of the Bloomberg TV channel.Russian gas supplies to Europe have declined»Directly, we stopped buying gas from Russia in 2015, we buy gas on the European market. But since we are in favor of a complete embargo on Russian gas, we believe that LNG from the United States is the best alternative,» he added he. Vitrenko noted that in the case of Ukraine, American LNG can cover all the country's import needs. However, if you look at the situation in Europe as a whole, then in the short term, American gas cannot replace supplies from Russia, but they can be significantly reduced through a combination of various measures.
The expert predicted how the heat will affect Europe's gas ambitionsUkraine in 2015 stopped buying gas directly from Russia and replaced it with a physical and, to a greater extent, virtual reverse from Europe. Reverse means that the original consumer, having received ownership of the gas, supplies it in the opposite direction. The virtual reverse, on the other hand, is the offsetting of deliveries; it assumes that Ukrainian consumers take away part of the transit gas that Gazprom sends to Europe. It does not physically cross the western borders of the country, but is registered as imported from the EU. According to the GTS Operator of Ukraine, the actual consumption of natural gas in the country in 2021 amounted to 26.8 billion cubic meters. At the same time, the volume of own gas production last year, according to Naftogaz, amounted to 13.67 billion cubic meters. The US and the EU figured out how to buy Russian oil
