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Ukraine’s state company opened 58 new gas wells in 2023, making Ukraine independent from gas imports

New gas wells have a total average daily output of 5.3 million cubic meters of natural gas. Ukraine's Naftogaz company says Ukraine will pass the 2023-2024 winter without imported gas for the first time ever.

byBohdan Ben

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Over 40 European energy firms turn to Ukrainian facilities to store gas for winter

The companies transport their gas to Ukraine amid almost full European facilities and competitive prices.

byBohdan Ben

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Ukraine regains control of two Black Sea drilling rigs occupied by Russia in 2014

Ukraine has retaken two strategic drilling platforms off the Crimean coast, occupied by Russia since 2014 and used for military purposes during the full-scale invasion, Ukraine's intelligence agency says.

byYuri Zoria

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Ukraine uncovers new gas field with potential of billions of cubic meters

“Naftogaz Ukraine,” the largest company in Ukraine by its share of GDP and a leading entity within the…

byOrysia Hrudka

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Ukraine

How Ukraine’s Naftogaz plans to make Russia pay $5bn for Crimea seizures

The Arbitration Tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has ordered that Russia pay Naftogaz…

byOlena Mukhina

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LNG shipments from Russia rose to highest since March

Russian liquefied natural gas shipments increased in October to nearly a record, illustrating how the world is struggling…

byOrysia Hrudka

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Czech protesters call for new government, gas from Russia

Thousands of Czechs protested on 28 October, demanding the center-right government step down to allow an early election…

byAlya Shandra

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Ukraine asks US for “gas lend-lease”

Ukraine’s PM Shmyhal: “The appeal of the government of Ukraine to the government of the United States of…

byVictoria Petryk

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Opinion

Germany tries to wrench a turbine out of Canada’s sanctions. It should press on Russia instead

A drama is unfolding around a Siemens turbine stuck in Canada. It was sent to Canada for repairs…

byAlya Shandra

iaea nuclear safety risk ukraine plants cut output after russian attack rivne power plant file three npps reduced electricity generation russia's 28 infrastructure attacks reported notably without naming russia ukrainian

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Amid Russian energy war, government denies expert warnings that Ukraine may face electricity and heating cuts

Currently, nuclear power plants cover 60% of electricity generation in Ukraine. This is up from 52% in 2020…

byBohdan Ben

Ukraine's Acting Minister of Energy Yuriy Vitrenko and Qatar's Minister of State for Energy Saad bin Sherid Al- Kaabi sign a memorandum of understanding in April 2021 (Source: Ministry of Energy of Ukraine)

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Ukraine teams up with Qatar in the gas sector

On April 5, Ukraine’s acting minister of energy, Yuriy Vitrenko, and his Qatari counterpart, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, signed…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

The Akademik Chersky pipelaying vessel is the ship expected to complete the final stretch of Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany.

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International

Can the vessel Akademik Cherskiy finish Nord Stream 2 pipeline construction?

At the beginning of October 2020, the Akademik Cherskiy—the only Russian pipe-laying ship capable of completing the construction…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Russian gas pipelines Nord Stream (Nord Stream 1) and Nord Stream 2 (under construction). Image: gazprom.com

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Russia pushes to complete Nord Stream 2 challenging US sanctions

While the United States struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, Russia has deployed two pipe-laying vessels to the Baltic…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Ceremony to launch Turkish Stream gas pipeline on January 8, 2020 in Istanbul (L-R): Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boyko Borissov, Vladimir Putin, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic. (Photo: kremlin.ru)

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Portnikov: The break in Putin’s pipe

According to the organizers of the commissioning ceremony of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline, the participation of Vladimir…

byVitaly Portnikov

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Opinion

Portnikov: Who in Ukraine is being bribed by Putin and Gazprom?

Even if literally the next day after the press release about reaching an agreement between Russia and Ukraine…

byVitaly Portnikov

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Portnikov: Why Berlin saves Putin’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline

The German tabloid Bild informed its readers about the decision by the Bundestag’s ruling coalition to change the…

byVitaly Portnikov

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Black Sea gas deposits – an overlooked reason for Russia’s occupation of Crimea

The Ukrainian patrol ship “Hryhoriy Kuropiatnykov” slowly leaves the port of Odesa. Aboard the vessel, there are more…

byKostiantyn Yanchenko

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The secret Soviet council which established the Kremlin’s gas monopoly on Europe

About the author Ivan Diyak is a corresponding member of the Academy of Mining Sciences, an acting member…

byUkrainian media sources

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Renewed Naftogaz-Gazprom tensions after Stockholm arbitration

The Stockholm arbitral awards The much-awaited arbitral awards from the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

A diagram showing where the 17 high-pressure pipelines carrying 89% of all natural gas produced in Russia pass through a single 500 by 500 meter area. Locals call the area "the Cross." (Image: voprosik.net)

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A single methane ‘bubble’ explosion from global warming could cut Russia off from 89% of its natural gas

Eighty-nine percent of Russia’s natural gas production comes from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District in the Russian Far North…

byPaul A. Goble