Ukrainian fuel company head denies problems with Turkmen gas supplies

There has been no reduction in the supply of Turkmen gas to Ukraine by the international company Itera, the head of the Ukrainian national oil and gas company Naftohaz Ukrayiny, Vadym Kopylov, said at a news conference today.

According to him, Itera itself has taken back the statement of its own press service on the matter.

Kopylov said that today Naftohaz Ukrayiny does not owe anything to Itera and all payments for gas are made on time. Complaints that Itera every now and then makes about Ukraine are not quite
justified because they have to do with contracts signed by Itera not with Naftohaz Ukrayiny but with other Ukrainian firms, in particular, with energy-generating companies.

UNIAN reported before that the press service of the Itera company announced that the Kazakh company Intergaz Central Asia had officially informed the heads of Itera about a reduction in the amount of gas transit of Turkmen gas from 15 August through Kazakh territory to Ukraine to a level of 50m cu.m. a day. The reduction in gas transit was caused by the failure of the Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Ministry to fulfil its obligations, imposed by the state leaders, on the repayment of the 20m-dollar debts of Ukrainian energy generating companies to Itera company.

Itera is an operator of the supply of 30bn cu.m. of gas to Ukraine from Turkmenistan in 2001.

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