Platts: European gas suppliers keen on supplying Ukraine via Slovakia: Naftogaz

Around 20 European gas suppliers, including the region's key gas traders, have expressed an interest in supplying gas to Ukraine via Slovakia, Ukraine's national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny said in a statement late Wednesday.

The statement followed the evaluation of the results of so-called Open Season procedure, during which Slovak gas transmission operator Eustream accepted binding bids for gas shipments via the Vojany-Uzhgorod pipeline in Ukraine's direction.

"Results of the Open Season confirm that gas supplies from the EU to Ukraine are a commercially attractive and perfectly legal business. The major Ukrainian market is interesting for Europeans," the statement quoted Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolev as saying.

Eustream in a separate statement late Wednesday also called the Open Season procedure successful.
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