1562: Oleksiy Chernyshov Quotes 2023–2024: Ukraine’s Gas Security, 2025 Debt Obligations & Post-Transit Energy Strategy
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/10/22
What do Chernyshov’s lines on sub-20 bcm consumption, winter balancing with gas, honoring 2025 obligations, and “new solutions” after the transit deal reveal about Naftogaz’s roadmap to keep the lights and heat on?
2023: “Overall Ukraine’s gas consumption, annual, is below 20 billion cubic meters, it is between 18 to 19 bcm.”
2023: “Over the past day alone, we have received 14 applications from non-residents to pump gas into … Ukrainian gas storage facilities.”
2024: “We plan to use gas to generate additional electricity to cover the deficit caused by Russian attacks.”
2024: “We have survived several series of attacks and these attacks are still ongoing.”
2024: “Air defence is being constantly developed in Ukraine although it is still not enough. But it is much better than it was last year.”
2024: “We intend to pay our debt obligations in 2025, we are communicating with investors and rating agencies.”
2024: “For now, a priority is to implement new solutions for the energy security of our countries. It is about new suppliers and, in the future, about exports of Ukrainian fuel.”
2024: “We are in a period of European shippers’ meetings where we agree on the volumes of (gas) injection. They (the Russians) aim to discredit us as an energy hub with storage capacities.”
2024: “The situation will not critically impact the UGS operations since the gas is stored deep underground.”
2024: “We could attract major players in Ukraine even during the war… We are expecting German brands to gather.”
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