据国外媒体6月27日基辅报道,乌克兰天然气运输垄断企业乌克兰天然气管道运输公司(Ukrtransgaz)新闻办公室日前援引公司首席执行官的话说,俄罗斯今年通过乌克兰的天然气运输量预计将减少大约18%。
Ukrtransgaz说,该公司去年过境运输了620亿立方米俄罗斯天然气,但是,今年这个数字将是510亿立方米。
根据乌克兰能源部统计,Ukrtransgaz去年俄罗斯天然气过境运输量同比减少了27.8%至622亿立方米。
乌克兰曾表示,乌克兰的地下储存设施需要收集140亿至190亿立方米天然气才能保证俄罗斯天然气过境输送到欧洲消费者以及保证乌克兰整个冬季的需求。
据悉,俄罗斯出口欧盟的大约40%天然气需要过境乌克兰。
李峻 编译
原文如下:
Ukraine Expects 18 pct Fall in Russian Gas Volume
World Energy News
June 27, 2015
Russia is expected to reduce its natural gas shipments via Ukraine by about 18 percent this year, according to Ukrainian gas transit monopoly Ukrtransgaz.
"We had transit of 62 billion cubic metres (bcm), but this year it will be at 51 billion," the company's press service quoted chief Ihor Prokopiv as saying on Wednesday.
Volumes fell by 27.8 percent in 2014 to 62.2 billion cubic metres, according to the Ukrainian energy ministry.
Ukraine has said it needs to collect between 14 and 19 bcm of gas in its underground storage facilities to guarantee the transit of Russian gas to European consumers and for its own needs through the winter.
Around 40 percent of Russia's gas exports to the European Union traverse Ukraine.