Warsaw is ready to develop LNG terminals, Baltic pipelines and connectors with its neighbours, while Kiev has Europe’s largest gas storage facilities
According to Ekonomika Segodnya, the press service of the GTS Operator of Ukraine LLC distributed a statement saying that Ukraine and Poland may create a joint gas hub in Eastern and Central Europe.
“Now the main threat to energy security in Eastern and Central Europe is the Nord Stream 2 project. Ukraine’s GTS operator will insist that the requirements of the EU’s Third Energy Package be applied to the pipeline”, – the operator said in a statement.
The countries expect to create a “powerful gas corridor”. Ukrainian and Polish markets, according to representatives of the company, are the largest in the region – about 50 billion cubic meters of blue fuel per year. Warsaw is ready to develop LNG terminals, Baltic pipelines and connectors with its neighbours, while Kiev has Europe’s largest gas storage facilities.
Only one question remains, but the most important one: whose gas will fill all this grandiose infrastructure? And if Russian, to what extent is Gazprom aware of the new Ukrainian-Polish initiative? And does it need it at all? But anyway, one cannot help dreaming.