Ukraine's Energy Industry Ministry expects results of GTS evaluation in November
Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boiko expects the results of the Ukrainian gas transport system's (GTS) appraisal in November.
"It is being completed. I believe it will be finished in the near future. I think it will be in November," he told reporters before the start of a government session in Kyiv on Wednesday.
As reported, late in March 2012, National JSC Naftogaz Ukrainy declared Kyiv-based Baker Tilly Ukraine LLC, an independent member of Baker Tilly International, the winner of a tender to choose an expert for the evaluation of assets in the Ukrainian GTS. The company was to appraise the GTS, including its underground gas storage facilities and infrastructure facilities, by August 1.
Ukrtransgaz operates Ukraine's system of main gas pipelines and underground gas storage facilities. At the input, the gas transport system's throughput capacity totals 288 billion cubic meters (bcm), and at the output - 178.5 bcm.
Ukrtransgaz's gas transport system comprises 72 compressor stations, 110 plants and 1,451 gas distribution stations. The gas pipelines that the company operates total 38,600 kilometers in length, including main pipelines - 22,200 km, and branch pipelines - 16,400 km.
Ukraine possesses 13 underground gas storage facilities, with a total active capacity of over 31 bcm. Ukrtransgaz operates 12 of the facilities and the system of gas pipelines, and Chornomornaftogaz, 100% of which belongs to Naftogaz, operates one facility.