GTS Operator of Ukraine in talks with ENTSOG, World Bank and USAID on buying critical materials

KYIV. March 21 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The Gas Transmission System (GTS) Operator of Ukraine together with the Ukrainian Energy Ministry is holding talks with the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG), the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) regarding centralized acquisitions of critical materials.

According to the GTS Operator of Ukraine, since February 24 it has received offers of technical assistance from 12 GTS operators from 11 European countries such as Poland, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, and Spain.

"At the moment, the GTS Operator of Ukraine together with other operators is specifying the requirements and coordinating a list of relevant equipment and materials for transfer. The dispatch of the first batches of technical assistance to Ukraine is already been prepared," it said.

Acting through a local distributor, Romania's Petrom has already handed over ten tonnes of diesel fuel to the GTS Operator of Ukraine.

The trunk gas pipelines of the GTS Operator of Ukraine are 33,079 kilometers long, there are 57 gas compressor stations and 1,395 gas distribution stations.