Under strong EU pressure, Ukraine will split up natural gas production and transportation operations, promising to adopt the legal framework in the first few months of 2019,

Under strong EU pressure, Ukraine will split up natural gas production and transportation operations, promising to adopt the legal framework in the first few months of 2019, S&P Global Platts reports from Kyiv. Janez Kopač, the Energy Community Secretariat director, says: “Unbundling should be designed in a way that the transmission system operator can be certified before the end of next year.” Failure to ‘unbundle’ according to EU rules, will give an advantage to the Nord Stream 2 Russia-Germany gas line if it is commissioned on schedule, one year from now.