Ukraine plans gas pipe from Poland

Ukraine plans to build a 110 km long gas pipeline for transit of up to 10 billion m³/yr of gas from Poland.

The project is estimated at US$ 245 million. Radoslaw Dudzinski, Deputy Chairman of the board of Polish Polenergia, told a Baltic business form in Poland that the gas pipeline could become operational in 2019 - 2020.

Plans are to build the pipeline from underground gas storage facilities at Bilshe-Volitsa in Ukraine’s Lvov region to the gas-measuring station Drozdovichi on the Ukrainian-Polish border.

Ukraine, which transits Russian gas on to European consumers, currently does not receive Russian gas for its own needs due to an unsettled dispute with Moscow over prices. The country depends on Russia for more than half of its gas needs.

Reverse supplies from Poland to Ukraine decreased about 30% over the first ten days of October to 28.1 million m³, Poland’s gas transport system operator Gaz-System said in a statement Monday.

In September, Ukraine received 117 million m³ of gas in reverse mode, including 40.3 million m³ of gas over the first ten days of September.

Russia says it is ready to resume natural gas supplies to Ukraine if Kiev repays its gas debt and makes advance payments for new gas deliveries.

The Naftogaz oil and gas company stopped paying for the consumed Russian natural gas on 25 March. As of 1 August, the overall debt of Naftogaz to Gazprom for supplied gas totaled about US$ 5.3 billion.

Edited from various sources by Elizabeth Corner

Sources: Itar Tass, Itar Tass

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