Kiev Announces Trilateral Technical Consultations On Details Of Future Russian Gas Transit

Kiev Announces Trilateral Technical Consultations on Details of Future Russian Gas Transit

Ukraine, Russia and the European Commission will hold technical consultations to discuss future volumes of gas transit, as well as the duration of the future contract and tariffs,Ukraine's Energy Minister Oleksiy Orzhel told reporters after a tripartite ministerial gas meeting in Brussels on Thursday

BRUSSELS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th September, 2019) Ukraine, Russia and the European Commission will hold technical consultations to discuss future volumes of gas transit, as well as the duration of the future contract and tariffs,Ukraine's Energy Minister Oleksiy Orzhel told reporters after a tripartite ministerial gas meeting in Brussels on Thursday.

"Transport volumes and tariffs are a certain matrix: the more transported, the lower the tariff ... Next, certain technical consultations must be held to determine how much is needed to have a bilateral effect from this decision," Orzhel said.

"The tariff and interest in using the Ukrainian infrastructure also depends on the term of the contract. Whether it will be 10 years or something different is a matter of technical consultations between the parties," the Ukrainian minister stressed.