With Russian gas transit across Ukraine only guaranteed through 2024, Ukraine’s pipeline operator is negotiating alternatives:
Monday, January 11, 2021
With Russian gas transit across Ukraine only guaranteed through 2024, Ukraine’s pipeline operator is negotiating alternatives: storage of gas from new LNG terminals in the Baltic and Adriatic, and transmission of ‘non-carbonized’ gases, such hydrogen and bio-methane. Olga Bielkova, international affairs director for Ukraine’s gas transportation system, writes in an Atlantic Council Ukraine Alert blog that Ukraine and Romania are increasing their cross-border pipelines from one to four, Ukraine is negotiating with Hungary access to gas from Croatia’s new LNG terminal, and is offering Polish gas traders storage capacity in western Ukraine, near the border.