The pretrial investigation into facts of taking bribes in procurement tenders held by National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom to buy equipment from Czech Skoda JS known in mass media as the Martynenko (former MP Mykola Martynenko) case will be continued. “Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) would not close this criminal case.…
Four international companies are supplying imported gas to Ukraine to sell it to local consumers, Commercial Director of the national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy Yuriy Vitrenko reported. “These are Hungarian, Swiss, German and French companies,” he said. Vitrenko said that in January these and other importers of natural gas to Ukraine imported less gas than…
Moldova has outlines for settling its debt to Russian gas giant Gazprom, but the debt of the breakaway Transdniester republic is a complicated issue, Moldovan President Igor Dodon said. “We have an idea how to end the situation. As of today, the debt of the right bank (of the Dniester River) is about $500 million.…
National joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy has confirmed that it received a $5.3 billion bill from Russia’s Gazprom for gas the company did not order in 2016. Naftogaz does not intend to clear it until Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce issues its final decision, the press service of the company reported. “Gazprom refers…
Naftogazvydobuvannya operated by DTEK Naftogaz has commenced drilling a new well at Semirenkivske gas and condensate field. The project will employ new engineering solutions and environmental approaches. The 5,628 m deep well will be slanted, yet the company is going to drill, explore and test it in just 160 days. Naftogazvydobuvannya will use a retrofitted…
Gazprom has billed Naftogaz Ukrainy $5.3 billion for not accepting contracted take-or-pay provisions for gas. If that amount is included in the earlier declared claims in the Stockholm arbitration case, the amount of claims in the case of fulfilling the contract on supplies will grow to $37 billion, which makes up more than half of…
Gas stocks in Ukraine’s underground storage facilities declined by 25% or 3.677 billion cubic meters to 11.055 billion cubic meters since October 13, 2016 when the current heating season began, through January 14. Ukraine withdrew 52.84 million cubic meters from underground storage on January 14, and a total of 930.98 cubic meters on January 1…