The pilot project for gas supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine through the transbalkan corridor has been completed.
Ukraine is ongoing negotiations with Azerbaijan in new gas supplies and discusses the possibility of pumping it with underground storage non -resident. This was announced by the Minister of Energy Svetlana Grinchuk during the presentation of the government actions program at KYIV, Report Interfax-Ukraine.
According to him, the Azerbaijan side is interested in it. The new contract can be signed before the warming season begins.
The minister made it clear that technical consultations on projects for the use of Ukrainian gas storage facilities are ongoing, as well as mining within the Ukrainian-American Recovery Fund framework.
“We work with partners, we are currently continuing technical advice on projects including our gas storing facilities to increase the part of the country’s partners in their use, and to projects with victims within the fundraising framework,” Grinchuk said.
He also emphasized that Ukraine is close to implementing the government’s plan to accumulate at least 13.2 billion cubic meters. M of gas before the onset of the heat period, but relies for large quantities.
“There may be more. We rely on this. Although careful in our forecasts, because during the attack on the gas delivery infrastructure a large percentage of production has actually lost and affected transportation. However, a large percentage of damaged equipment has been restored. Now we are catching the speeds lost to the” NAFTogaz “objects,” the minister explained.
As reported, by the end of July 2025, the group Naftogaz He entered the first Azerbaijani gas purchase agreement with Socar Energy Ukraine, which is part of the Socar Group. Gas was first delivered by a trial in the Transbalkan Corridor along the Bulgaria – Romania route – the Ukrainian border.
Remember that Russia on the night of August 18 attacked unarmed vehicles such as the Shaheda terminal of the Azerbaijani State Oil and Gas Company Socar in the Odessa Region.
Earlier, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev condemned the Russian attack on the Azerbaijani Energy Infrastructure in Ukraine.
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