Due to the reduction in Russian gas supplies to Poland ceased reverse supplies to Ukraine. Kiev considers it an attempt to “Gazprom” to torpedo the reverse supply through Polish territory. At the same time, Ukraine is preparing to replace Russian gas through its own production and replacement of gas with biofuel.
Ukraine accuses Russia of trying to disrupt the reverse gas supplies. “Today, Russia has begun to limit the supply of gas to the Republic of Poland to thwart reverse from Poland, we get – said on Wednesday the head of” Ukrtransgaz “(the Ukrainian gas transportation system) Igor Prokop’ev. – At two o’clock in Poland ceased to reverse the Ukraine within the 4 million cubic meters ».
« I can confirm that a few hours ago were stopped gas supplies to Ukraine from Poland for technical reasons “, – quotes RIA” Novosti ” Press Secretary of the Polish-gas network operator Gaz-System SA Malgorzata Polkowski. According to her, now specialists engaged in solving issues related to the redirection of gas flow in the pipeline system.
Deliveries to Ukraine can be resumed “within a few days.”
Earlier Wednesday, the Polish PGNiG reported a sharp reduction in the supply of Russian gas through Ukraine as well as through Belarus. According to the report of the Polish company, September 8, the difference was 20%, and on September 9 – 24%.
Earlier, Ukrainian politicians have repeatedly stated intention to reduce Russian gas supplies to Europe, to deny the EU the possibility to redirect part of the resulting fuel to Ukraine. Country from June 16, does not receive Russian gas as “Gazprom” because of the large debt ($ 5.3 billion) translated Kiev for prepaid supply chain. Since then Ukraine buys gas at the reverse of through Poland, Slovakia and Hungary.
«news agency cut gas supplies” Gazprom “to the Polish company PGNiG is incorrect – said “Gazeta.ru” representative of “Gazprom”. – Currently in Poland comes exactly the same amount of gas, as in previous days – 23 million cubic meters. meters per day ».
When asked about the reasons for the rejection of the actual volume of deliveries from orders of the Polish side, the source” Gazety.Ru “said:” Deliveries are carried out in all directions, based on the available Currently, resources for export and continues to pump in UGS facilities in the Russian Federation. ”
According to Ukrainian experts in the field of energy, the former head of the press service of “Naftogaz of Ukraine” Valentine Zemlyansky, we can not exclude that the reduction in supplies to Poland really is an attempt to disrupt the reverse.
«But then it would be more appropriate to reduce deliveries to Slovakia: it is the main route (about 27 million cubic meters per day), – indicates Zemlyanskiy. – Poland reverses a incomparably smaller volumes – about 120 million cubic meters a month ».
has repeatedly stated that it will do without Russian gas. Not only due to the reverse, but also due to a package of measures aimed at the development of its own production, generating energy from alternative sources and energy efficiency.
So, on Wednesday, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Igor Schweich on the TV channel “1 +1″ said that in 2015 the Ukrainians will be able to pay for half the energy by replacing Russian gas biofuels from wood.
According to him, the cost of one Gcal “gas” of energy is about $ 50, while the same amount of energy gained by the use of biofuels, will cost only $ 25.
Accordingly, if one thousand. cubic meters of gas costs around $ 500, “an adequate amount of wood” – $ 250 According to Schweich, Ukraine may replace timber about 10 billion cubic meters of gas – a fifth of all Ukrainian consumption.
Chapter Lesprom Network Alexey Bogatyrev noted that for large-scale substitution of gas with biofuel from wood Ukraine consumed large investments. They are necessary, firstly, to provide raw materials: woods occupied only 15.7% of the territory of Ukraine, which is significantly less than the European average (20%). In this case, even the available volumes of wood harvested Ukraine due to lack of capacity to process can not – about half is exported. Thus, Ukraine needs to invest in the construction of facilities for wood processing and the production of fuel (so-called pellets).
«And finally, you will need to redirect to consume pellets power, primarily boilers, – says Bogatirev. – Moreover, the implementation of all items will take years ».
As for the domestic production of Ukraine, the authorities intend to put into operation new fields. Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of last week issued a decree under which the system introduced in the West Old Believers, Kobzevskoe, Gorobitsivskoe, Evgenivskoe Drobishivskoe and gas condensate fields, as well as oil and gas field Valyuhivskoe.
All the deposits belong to “daughter” ” Naftogaz “- the company” Ukrgazvydobuvannya. ” The projected production volumes in the Ukrainian Energy Minister decrees are not given. According to estimates of the Ministry of the opening deposits, industrial stocks Western Starover estimated at 550 million cubic meters, Gorobitsivskogo – up to 700 million cubic meters and Kobzevskoe estimated at 2.225 billion cubic meters. However, as for the last field, it is assumed that its main reserves lie at a depth of more than 6 thousand. Meters, where drillers have not yet reached. General prospects Kobzevskogo field reach 71 billion cubic meters, which is almost four times greater than the annual gas production in Ukraine today.
For the rest of fields estimates have not been published.
«On the development of these fields will require tens of millions of dollars (depending on the conditions of occurrence of the well and gas) , and the effect should be expected no earlier than one year “, – said Valentin Zemlyansky.
As recently told Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, completely abandon the service of “Gazprom” the country can only five years later. In this case, the same Yatsenyuk said earlier that specifically in 2014 Ukraine must still about 5 billion cubic meters of Russian gas in order to successfully get through the cold period.
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