Abc.az: US proposed Azerbaijan to replace Gazprom as a gas supplier for Ukraine
US actually proposed Azerbaijan to replace Gazprom as a gas supplier for Ukraine. At least yesterday’s statements of Ed Royce, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of US House of Representatives, sounded this way.
“We speak about energy assistance for Ukraine because we have additional capacities in Louisiana, we can transport liquefied natural gas from US and speed up construction of terminals in Europe so that Europe could receive this gas. Another pipeline will be built from Azerbaijan to supply gas to Europe and we negotiate with Azerbaijanis how this program can help”, - Royce said according to Ukrainian Mass Media.
In his words, 50% of its needs Ukraine can produce until 2020 if the gas reserves are developed efficiently.