The regions of Ukraine that will not have enough gas in winter are named
The transit of Russian gas through the Ukrainian gas transportation system will in any case decrease.
Already this winter, a number of regions of Ukraine risk being left without gas altogether if NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine does not agree with Gazprom to extend the transit contract by the end of the year.
The director of the Energy Strategies Fund, Dmitry Marunich, stated this on the Povesti channel on Youtube, reports a Politnavigator correspondent.
“Transit will remain in any case, but it will be significantly less. Moreover, its fall will not occur immediately.
In 2020, if transit volumes decrease, it will be insignificant. First of all, the threat here is the Turkish Stream.
But subsequently, in 2021 and beyond, transit will inexorably decline. “Gazprom has long declared its intention to refuse the services of any transit countries, not just Ukraine,” Marunich stated.
If the transit contract is not signed before the end of December 2019, then in those regions that are located at the ends of transit routes, gas pressure will be difficult to maintain.
“The worst situation is for those citizens who are at the so-called ends of the pipelines. If there is no transit of Russian gas, then, for example, in the south of the Odessa region a problematic situation will arise that we observed in January 2009.
It’s just that at the end of the pipe it will be very difficult to create the necessary pressure to supply gas there.
There are risks, relatively speaking, in the Donetsk region in the south, where the end of the pipeline is, in the Odessa region.
When gas flows naturally from east to west, these problems do not arise. It is consumed in the center and in the east, it is partially replaced from storage facilities, and so on and so forth.
But in the west of Ukraine, this is the first main threat that may exist depending on temperature conditions,” the expert concluded.
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