Ukraine’s import price of gas may drop in half this summer – to $80 per 1,000 cubic meters

Ukraine’s import price of gas may drop in half this summer – to $80 per 1,000 cubic meters – predicts Oleksiy Orzhel, Energy and Environmental Protection Minister. In January, Ukraine’s average price of imported natural gas was $175.26, already a 10-year low. With production sharing agreements coming up for auction in coming months, Orzhel warns ultra-low prices will turn off investment. He said Friday: “It will be very difficult to make decisions to invest in production…many companies have frozen their further extraction investment projects.”