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| Ukraine set to buy gas from European firms | ||
| 2014-06-17 | ||
[Iran Press TV] A Ukrainian delegation is set to travel to Hungarian capital Budapest in attempt to purchase gas from European firms.
"European companies are ready to provide gas to Ukraine. They have offered gas at a good price of $320" per 1,000 cubic meters," he added. Kobolev also said that Naftogaz is currently a client of German group RWE and French firm Gaz de La Belle France. "We also have offers coming from other similarly large companies," he said. Alexey Miller, chief executive of Russia's state-run energy giant Gazprom, has said that it would be illegal for European firms to sell gas imports from Russia to Ukraine.
Kiev has refused to pay for natural gas upfront as a protest to Russia's decision in April to almost double former gas prices. Gazprom raised the price of gas for Ukrainian consumers to USD 485 per 1,000 cubic meters from USD 268 for the first quarter of 2014. Ukraine says Kremlin increased the price after former Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, was ousted in February. Kiev calls the move politically motivated, but Russian authorities reject the claim | ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 If I'm doing my math right, last month I paid for my natural gas at a rate of $372/1000 cubic meters, that was the retail price & included all the taxes & other charges added on to the basic cost of natural gas. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-06-17 01:27 |