BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
10/01/2009
Belarus disputes Ukraine claim about need to use transited gas for technological reasons
Minsk, January 10 (Interfax) - The use of part of natural gas transited through a country to maintain the flow of this gas through the pipeline is unacceptable, said a top manager from the Belarusian national gas transportation company Beltransgaz.
"Beltransgaz has long been transiting Russian gas through Belarus to Europe, and we perfectly know how this work is arranged. One of the issues that have arisen between [the Russian gas monopoly] Gazprom and [the Ukrainian national energy company] Naftogaz Ukrainy concerns technological gas used at compressor plants to pump transited gas," Beltransgaz Deputy General Director Dmitry Anyuk told journalists.
"This dispute appears very strange to onlookers," Anyuk said. "Not a single gas transportation company in the world takes part of transited gas free of charge for pumping it. It is the same as if you ordered a taxi, paid according to the meter, and also stopped at a gasoline station and paid for filling the gas tank. Gas transiting companies, just as any transportation companies, charge for transportation services, and this is international practice," Anyuk said.
"Beltransgaz is not an exception in this respect. We use gas bought from Gazprom for transiting gas through our network, and we charge Gazprom a certain price for our services," he said.
Source:
http://www.kyivpost.com/world/32971
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