JKX in 2005

Gazprom ready to share control over gas consortium with Ukraine

RIA NOVOSTI. December 23, 2005, 4:25 PM

MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - Gazprom is ready to share control in a gas consortium with Ukraine on a parity basis, a company senior official said Friday.
"We have always supported the idea of a parity partnership in the gas consortium and our position has not changed," Gazprom Deputy Chairman Alexander Medvedev told a news conference.
The International Consortium for Managing and Developing the Gas Transportation System of Ukraine was established in 2002 under a Russian-Ukrainian agreement regarding strategic cooperation in the natural gas sector.
Both parties later considered the addition of several European participants to the consortium, but in September 2005 Kiev told Moscow that the project to establish a natural gas-transport consortium consisting of Ukraine, Russia, Germany, France and Italy was unfeasible.
Medvedev also said Gazprom would do everything possible to ensure the steady supply of natural gas to its European customers


Gas transit, export deals should be signed separately - Medvedev

RIA NOVOSTI. December 23, 2005, 3:49 PM

MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - Contracts for gas transit and export via Ukraine should be signed separately, said Alexander Medvedev, a Gazprom board deputy chairman and the general director of export company Gazeksport.
He told a press conference that Ukraine should not blackmail Russia by refusing to sign the gas transit contract, if Russia insists on its market gas prices.
"Ukraine has signed and ratified the economic charter treaty, so it may not do so," Medvedev said. He also said Ukraine's manipulating of gas transport prices would be "blackmail and piracy".
An agreement has already been reached with Georgia and Armenia to sell gas at $110 in 2006, he said. Medvedev explained the prices had been agreed upon, taking into consideration the average European prices and the transportation component.
Medvedev said Moldova would be buying Russian gas at $160.
"The negotiations are being completed now and corresponding treaties will be signed soon," he said


Gazprom warns Ukraine: no contract, no gas

RIA NOVOSTI. December 23, 2005, 3:38 PM

MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russian energy giant Gazprom's Deputy Board Chairman Alexander Medvedev said Friday that his company would not supply Ukraine with natural gas if a contact has not been signed by 2006.
"No contract, no deliveries," Medvedev said at a press conference in Moscow.
Asked whether Ukraine would be able to satisfy domestic demand by using reserves in its underground storages, Medvedev said the natural gas in those reserves was meant for export and that the reserves did not contain extra amounts of gas for the domestic market.
However, he said Gazprom did not have accurate data on the amount of natural gas being kept in Ukraine's underground facilities.
"We do not have data, but we have made assessments on this score," Medvedev said