ICIS: Slovak Natural Gas Capacity to Ukraine Unlikely to Increase Soon

A planned increase in eastbound pipeline capacity to flow natural gas from Slovakia to Ukraine may not happen this year, a source at the Slovak grid operator Eustream has told ICIS.

In July it was announced that capacity at the Budince border point would rise from 40 million cubic metres (mcm)/day to 57mcm/day by 1 December.

“This is not an easy task, this project requires both investment and construction,” the source at Eustream said. “We are conducting a technical analysis and waiting for permissions from different government agencies at the moment.”

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