Public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz, the operator of the Ukrainian gas transport system, has again announced a tender to buy three billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas to satisfy its industrial, technological and its own needs, reads a report of Ukrtransgaz in the Visnyk Derzhavnykh Zakupivel bulletin.
The company said that gas is to be supplied in November-December 2013 and in 2014 on the Ukrainian border and border of other countries or at gas metering points to underground storage facilities.
Bids are to be accepted until Nov. 21, 2013.
As reported, Ukrtransgaz announced the similar tender to buy three billion cubic meters of gas in September 2013. Bids were accepted until Oct. 16, 2013. There is no information on the results of the tender.
Until recently Ukrtransgaz traditionally bought fuel gas from national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy under a one-bidder procedure. However, in late 2012, the operator bought 570 million cubic meters of gas from Lidergaz LLC worth Hr 2.408 billion (value added tax is included). Lidergaz bought this gas from Dmytro Firtash’s Osthem Holding Limited (Cyprus). Ukrtransgaz Director General Serhiy Vinokurov said that Ukrtransgaz bought fuel from Lidergaz at Hr 4,223.83 (VAT included) per 1,000 cubic meters of gas, which is Hr 59 cheaper than the price of Russian gas offered by Naftogaz Ukrainy.
Ukrtransgaz in 2012 reduced natural gas consumption for industrial and technological needs by 37.2 percent compared to 2011, to 2.108 billion cubic meters, in particular that of fuel gas by 35.2 percent, to 1.682 billion cubic meters.
Ukrtransgaz operates Ukraine’s network of trunk pipelines and 12 underground gas storage facilities with a total active capacity of 31 billion cubic meters. The total length of the pipelines operated by the company is 38,600 kilometers, and that for trunk pipelines – 22,200 kilometers.
