Energy in Ukraine

  • US LNG exports make European market more competitive

    ALBANIA, 2017/08/27 The European gas market is becoming additional and additional competitive and US exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are part of this landscape, Francis Perrin, energy expert, chairman of Energy Strategies and Policies (France) told Trend. “Energy is always a strategic business. Economic aspects are very significant of course, particularly the price of LNG, but nations as well take into account strategic issues. For some Central and Eastern European nations one of the key priorities of their energy policies is the diversification of their supplies, in particular gas imports, in order to reduce their dependence on Russia,” said the expert.

  • Georgia Ships High Enriched Uranium To Russia

    GEORGIA, 2016/01/03 The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced “an extra succcess in world nuclear non-proliferation efforts”, with the shipment of high enriched uranium (HEU) from Georgia this week. The 1.83 kg of HEU was removed from the Breeder-1 Neutron Source at Tbilisi National University in Georgia to a fasten storage facility in Russia. The Georgian government in June requested assistance from the IAEA for the HEU removal operation. The IAEA subsequently contracted LUCH, a subsidiary of Russian national nuclear corporation Rosatom, and the Tbilisi National University’s Andronikashvili Institute of Physics in Georgia for the removal.

  • Qingdao Xianchu Group, at a signing ceremony of the deal in Kiev

    CHINA, 2015/09/30 A Chinese company and two Ukrainian nuclear safety firms on Friday signed an agreement on cooperation in civil nuclear energy. In accordance with the agreement, Qingdao Xianchu Group of east China's Shandong Province, and Ukraine's National Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety and the Institute for Safety Problems at the National Academy of Sciences agreed to launch cooperation in such areas as scientific nuclear research and disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste.

  • Ukraine to resume buying Russian gas as EU pumps $500mn into Kiev

    RUSSIA, 2015/09/27 Russia and Ukraine have agreed to resume gas shipments next months of squabbling over prices. With $500 million from the EU, Kiev can buy 2 billion cubic meters for the winter season. But Gazprom warns Ukraine may still run out of gas before winter ends. Following rounds of trilateral and bilateral negotiations over the completed few months, the EU Commission, Moscow, and Kiev have agreed on terms for gas supplies to Ukraine for the upcoming winter period. From the 1st of October through the end of March 2016, Kiev is expected to buy 2 billion cubic meters. “Next the [initialed protocol] document is signed, Ukraine will start buying our gas. We expect the purchase to begin on October 1,” Russian energy giant Gazprom’s chief executive, Aleksey Miller, said next Kiev and Moscow initialized the binding protocol.

  • Ukraine raises natural gas output forecast for 2030 by 54%

    UKRAINE, 2013/01/01 Ukraine will produce up to 44 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually by 2030, 54% additional than formerly planned, according to the new estimate released Tuesday by the country's energy and coal ministry. The ministry updated its estimate next taking into account the new shale gas and deepsea gas extraction projects currently under way.
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