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Russia, Ukraine Agree on New Gas Prices
Gazprom has made a 5-year contract with Ukraine to deliver gas at $230/ths cubic meters starting from January 1, 2006. The gas will be supplied through RosUkrEnergo, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller said at the news conference Wednesday.
Moreover, Gazprom entered into a long term contract for Russia's gas transit via Ukraine. The price is $1.6/ths cubic meters per each 100 kilometers, Miller said, adding the settlement will be made "only by money" and that the transit terms "are not tied to provisions of supplying gas on Ukrainian market." "We are sure the reached agreements will additionally guarantee the secure export of gas to Europe and serve as a good basis for developing gas cooperation between Russia and Ukraine under the market principles."
"We will be purchasing gas of Central Asia [Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan] and of Russia from RosUkrEnergo", said Alexey Ivchenko, CEO at Naftogaz Ukrainy. Therefore, Ukraine will be buying gas from RosUkrEnergo at $95/ths cubic meters on Russia's-Ukrainian border, according to Ivchenko,
The chemical industry of Ukraine loses efficiency at the gas price of $95/ths cubic meters; mining and metal industry faces the same at the price of $103, the analysts of Ukraine lamented unanimously not long ago. On aggregate, those two industries account for 30 percent of Ukrainian GDP and for 45 percent of total currency supply generated from export operations.
Gazprombank owns 50 percent in RosUkrEnergo, Raiffeisenbank has another 50 percent.
Gazprom resumed actual gas deliveries to Ukraine January 2, 2006, said Gazprom briefer Sergey Kupriyanov, although some legal problems were still outstanding then.
Starting from 2006, RosUkrEnergo is an exclusive supplier of all gas imported to Ukraine, Kupriyanov said. For this company, the cost of Russia's gas is determined in view of the price formula similar to the one applied for European deliveries of gas. The price for Russia's gas will be adjusted automatically, according to Kupriyanov, while the transit rate has been fixed for five years.
Kupriyanov didn't disclose gas delivery volume specified in the documents for 2006, but said Ukrainian gas balance sets forth 17 billion cubic meters of Russia's gas.
The gas balance of Ukraine has been approved at 76.5 billion cubic meters for this year, including 40 billion cubic meters of Turkmen gas, 20 billion cubic meters of own production and 16.5 billion cubic meters of Russia's gas, Valentin Mondrievsky, briefer of Ukrainian PM, said the day before.
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