Gas for the 2026/27 Winter: Will There Be Enough, and What to Do with the SurplusThe “Gas Traders of Ukraine” Association has prepared an analytical assessment of the gas balance for the 2026/27 heating season. Key points: A RECORD-BREAKING START TO THE SEASONUnderground storage facilities (including buffer gas) hold over 15.6 billion m³ of gas. […]
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The government is launching partial gas exports
After several months of discussions, the Cabinet of Ministers finally decided to allow partial exports of natural gas to the European Union—for the first time since the start of the full-scale war. The government adopted the relevant decision on October 7. Once the document takes effect, private operators will be able to sell up to […]
Ukraine Has Secured Guaranteed Capacity at the Future LNG Terminal in Klaipėda – Prime Minister
Ukraine Has Secured Guaranteed Capacity at the Future LNG Terminal in Klaipėda – Prime Minister Ukraine has secured guaranteed LNG regasification capacity at the new terminal in Klaipėda, which is currently under construction, Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi announced. “Ukraine has already made a commitment and, in return, has secured guaranteed capacity at the new […]
Moldova may consider the nationalization of Moldovagaz, in which Gazprom owns 50% of the shares
Moldovan media reports that Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean has asked Justice Minister Veronica Mihailov-Moraru to revise the nationalization legislation. The prime minister appealed after Russian Gazprom announced that it would stop supplying natural gas to Moldovagaz from January 1, 2025, allegedly because of the company’s debt. “For the first time, the Kremlin’s political ‘clowns […]
Falling Ukraine VTP prices may help resurrect gas market competition – trading association CEO
Ukrainian VTP prices are converging with EU values Falling prices could incentivise return to free market rules Gas Traders of Ukraine CEO says softening supply risks could see cross-border trading resume LONDON (ICIS)–Ukraine could lift gas trading regulatory restrictions and revert to free market arrangements as a window of opportunity is opening up, the CEO […]
The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
It also provides a glimpse at the future of European gas supplies Europe had weathered one winter since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. But although gas prices had returned to Earth, they were sure to rise in the colder months to come. Thus if commodity merchants bought at rock-bottom rates in the summer, they could […]
Financing Putin’s war: Fossil fuel exports from Russia in the first six months of the invasion of Ukraine
August 24 marked Ukraine’s 31st Independence Day, and the passage of six months since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale aggression aiming to end that independence. To shed light on who purchases Russiaʼs oil, gas and coal, and how the volume and value of imports have changed since the start of the invasion, the Centre for Research […]
CEO Аssociation “Gas Traders of Ukraine” Andrew Myzovets takes part in the conference: “European policy of diversification of natural gas supplies and implications for Russian gas exports”
Congratulations to the participants of the meeting! I am very glad to see everyone alive and well, this is extremely important in times of aggression against Ukraine. I will say the banal truth that russian aggression against our country would be impossible without huge revenues that our northern neighbor has received, is receiving and […]
German regulator takes over Gazprom Germania to ensure energy supply
FRANKFURT, April 4 (Reuters) – Gazprom Germania, an energy trading, storage and transmission business ditched by Russia’s Gazprom (GAZP.MM) on Friday, will be transferred to Germany’s regulator to ensure energy security, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Monday. All voting rights in the company will be moved to the regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur, Habeck told a news conference. […]
German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck reflects on tricky Arab energy mission
German Economy Minister and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, of the Green Party, has returned from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. He spoke to DW about gas deals, Russia and the state of Germany’s coalition government. For three days, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck traveled around the Arab world while a war raged in Europe. The Green […]
