Ukraine plans to reduce its purchases of Russian gas to about 20 billion cubic meters a year and increase supply from Europe next year as it tries to wean itself off Russia for its fuel needs, the Interfax news agency reports a senior executive at Naftogaz, Ukraine's state-owned oil and gas company, as saying.
Ukraine plans to reduce its purchases of Russian gas to about 20 billion
cubic meters a year and increase supply from Europe next year as it tries to
wean itself off Russia for its fuel needs, the Interfax news agency reports a
senior executive at Naftogaz, Ukraine's state-owned oil and gas company, as
saying.
Ukraine
is on
target to import 27.7 billion cubic meters of gas from
Russia
this
year and Naftogaz had said in June it had intended to buy 27 billion cubic
meters of gas from
Russia
in
2013, but later reduced the figure to 24.5 billion cubic meters.
Vadim Chuprun, Naftogaz deputy director, said
Ukraine
intends to increase its purchases of gas from European suppliers to 5 billion
cubic meters to make up the difference.
The two countries have argued for years over gas prices as
Ukraine
has
struggled with its near total reliance on its eastern neighbor for fuel.
Disputes over pricing and allegations of illegal siphoning of gas have twice in
the past decade disrupted Russian gas supplies to Europe shipped through
Ukraine, most recently in 2009. A severe cold spell in February of this year
led to shortfalls across
Eastern Europe
as domestic
gas demand in
Russia
hit
record highs.
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