Transit booking via Ukraine on Monday - 46.8 mln cubic meters of gas, minimum bid since Jan

MOSCOW. May 16 (Interfax) - The Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine (GTSOU) accepted transit booking totaling 46.8 million cubic meters of gas from Gazprom on Monday, the minimum bid since January of the current year.

Capacity was claimed for only one of two entry points - the Sudzha gas metering station (GMS). The application via the Sokhranivka GMS corridor was not accepted.

As of May 15, the initial request for entry into the GTSOU was 62.7 million cubic meters.

As reported, the GTSOU declared a force majeure with respect to transit via the Sohranivka gas metering station, citing its inability to carry out operational and technological control of the Novopskov compressor station.

Gazprom believes that there are no grounds for force majeure and no obstacles to continuing operations as before. "Ukrainian specialists have been steadily working at the Sorkranivka and Novopskov compressor stations all this time and continue to do so. Transit through Sokhranivka was provided in full, there were and are no complaints from counterparties," the Russian company said in a statement.