Title: Natural gas in Ukraine - Wikipedia
Headings: Natural gas in Ukraine
Natural gas in Ukraine
Contents
Domestic production
Regions
Consumers
Imports
Prices of import
Ukraine as transit route of natural gas
Shale gas
See also
Notes
References
External links

Content: In January 2013 Ukraine paid $430 per 1,000 cm. There have been disputes over prices that lead to several economic conflicts with Russia since 1990. Then Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin making a joint press statement on 18 January 2009 after they reached a deal on restoring gas supplies to both Europe and Ukraine. After 2008 a rapid increase in price has raised Ukraine's annual cost of gas imports; from less than $4 billion in 2005 to $14 billion in 2011 and 2012. Natural gas is Ukraine's biggest import at present and is the main cause of the country's structural trade deficit. In the 17 December 2013 Ukrainian–Russian action plan it was agreed that the cost of Russian natural gas supplied to Ukraine would be lowered to $268 per 1,000 cubic metres (this price was more than $400 in December 2013). During the Russian - Ukrainian crisis, starting in February 2014 with the Russian military intervention in Crimea, severe tensions extended to the gas sector. Eventually, the EU commissioner for energy Günther Oettinger was called in to broker a deal securing supplies to Ukraine and transit to the EU. The package signed on 30.