Ukraine saw a 15.9 percent or 3.1 billion cubic meters (bcm) fall in imports of natural gas in 2015, to 16.4 bcm, the press service of public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz has reported.
The press service said that gas imports from Europe in 2015 reached 10.3 bcm, and this is 2.1 time up from a year ago (5.1 bcm). Imports from Slovakia came to 9.7 bcm, Hungary – 0.5 bcm and Poland – 0.1 bcm.
Ukrtransgaz said that in 2014, 3.6 bcm of gas was supplied from Slovakia, 0.6 bcm from Hungary and 0.9 bcm from Poland, and the share of the Slovakian route in gas imports from Europe grew from 70.6 percent in 2014 to 94.2 percent in 2015.
Ukraine imported 6.1 bcm of gas from Russia in 2015, which is 58.3 percent down on 2014 (14.5 bcm).
Ukrtransgaz said that as of morning on Jan. 6, 2016 Ukraine imported gas only from Europe at the pace of 20.5 million cubic meters a day.
As reported, according to the State Statistics Service, in 2014 Ukraine imported 19.466 bcm of gas worth $5.695 billion from all suppliers in 2014, including 5.016 bcm worth $1.755 billion from suppliers in Europe and 14.450 bcm worth $3.94 billion from Russia.
