Gazprom to drive the Ukraine under the ground – concern to demand to increase gas pumping into storages

Gazprom again threatens Europe with interruptions in gas supplies through the Ukraine. The monopoly affirms that underground gas storages of the country don’t have enough gas for reliable transit in winter. Naftogas Ukrainy isn’t going to pump the raw materials in necessary amounts for its money. The parties shift responsibility onto each other, and the Ukraine searches for possibility to fill storages on account of German RWE.

On Friday, the Gazprom’s Head, Alexei Miller stated that the company saw “very serious risks for transit of Russian gas to Europe through the Ukraine in this winter”, if the republic “doesn’t take necessary steps to speed up gas pumping into the underground gas storages”. He explained: by the winter, over 19 billion cubic meters of gas must be in the Ukrainian underground gas storages for the fail-safe transit  and it must be pumped in the summer, and now storages of the country have less than 7.5 billion cubic meters.