the GTS Operator reported. The company’s GM, Dmytro Lippa, noted that EU gas storage facilities are filling up faster than last year, and most of them are already reserved until the end of 2023.
Ukrainian GTS Operator and Underground Gas Storage (UGS) facilities offer customers three reliable key routes from the EU to storage facilities in Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary, as well as transportation opportunities through the Trans-Balkan Gas Corridor.
“Currently, UGS allows traders to store more than 10 billion cubic meters of gas in Ukraine,” Lippa clarified. In addition, the GTS Operator is working on a long-term increase in guaranteed capacities to ensure gas import routes, including routes from LNG terminals to underground gas storage facilities in Ukraine.
The GTS operator is also interested in creating conditions for developing the renewable gas industry in Ukraine. Priority is given to two direction cross-border trade in biomethane in the near term and hydrogen transportation in the long term.