BUDAPEST: Ukrainian gas distributor Ukrtransgas’ public relation officer Maxim Belyavsky said that Ukraine is anticipating a daily gas flow coming from Hungary to grow 10% to 5.5 million cubic meters.
In the first half of this month, Ukraine imported more than 1 billion cubic meters of gas, of which 642 million arrived from the EU and 400 million from Russia, the official added. In January, Ukraine imported almost 1.1 billion cubic meters of natural gas from the EU, including 63.3 million through Hungary.
After more than a three-month lull, Hungary resumed gas deliveries to Ukraine on January 10 this year. Hungarian transmission system operator FGSZ decided to suspend gas deliveries to Ukraine on September 25, 2014, citing a need to top up domestic reserves.
Deliveries became sporadic in early February, with daily volumes falling to 5,000 cubic meters from the previous more than 3 mln. FGSZ explained the development with falling demand. From February 5, deliveries increased to a daily 5 million cubic meters. Last year, Ukraine imported a total of 600 million cubic meters of gas from Hungary.
