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18.08.2014 11:08

Ukraine Started Test Gas Import from Slovakia

The test imports from Slovakia amount to 2 million cubic metres a day, a spokesman for the state pipeline operator Ukrtransgaz said

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Ukraine has begun test imports of gas from Slovakia via an upgraded pipeline, the head of Ukrainian state-owned gas company Naftogaz said on Saturday.

"Test pumping of gas has started from Slovakia to Ukraine via Vojany-Uzhorod. This pipeline could supply up to 40 percent of the country's gas import needs," Naftogaz chief executive Andriy Kobolev said in a post on Facebook, as reported by Reuters.

The Slovak pipeline - an upgraded older link leading from the Vojany power station near the Ukrainian border to the western Ukrainian town of Uzhorod - can supply up to 10 bcm of gas a year.

The test imports from Slovakia amount to 2 million cubic metres a day, a spokesman for the state pipeline operator Ukrtransgaz said. The pipeline is expected to function on an interruptible basis from September and on a firm basis from March 2015.

Since Russia stopped gas for Ukraine in June, Kiev which is trying to source more gas from the European Union and cut consumption levels from last year's 50 billion cubic metres (bcm), hopes to increase its own annual gas production from current levels of 20 bcm.