Ukraine increased electricity exports by 15% (by 319.4 million kWh) in January-April 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, to 2.449 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy and Environment Protection has told Interfax-Ukraine. Electricity supplies from the Burshtyn thermal power plant (TPP) energy island to Hungary, Slovakia and Romania increased by 24.7% (by 351.2 million kWh), to 1.772 billion kWh.
Electricity supplies to Poland increased by 24.2% (by 106.4 million kWh), to 546.7 million kWh.
Electricity supplies to Moldova amounted to 130.3 million kWh, which is 51.5% (138.2 million kWh) less than in January-April 2019.
Ukrainian electricity was not exported to Belarus and Russia.
However, electricity exports fell by 60% in April 2020 compared with April 2019 (by 355 million kWh), to 237.9 million kWh.
Thus, Ukraine imported 1.705 billion kWh of electricity, in particular 1.012 billion kWh was supplied from Slovakia, some 408.6 million kWh from Hungary, some 152.3 million kWh from Belarus, some 78.3 million kWh from Romania and some 53.4 million kWh from Russia over the first four months.
In addition, under technological flows related to interconnected operation of the United Energy System of Ukraine with the energy systems of neighboring countries (taken into account under the contracts of state-owned enterprise Energomarket) some 19.25 million kWh of electricity were imported from Russia and some 250,000 million kWh were imported from Belarus over four months of 2020.
National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 22/05/20
Source: National Bank of Ukraine
Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of May 22
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
The British company Regal Petroleum, part of the Smart Energy group, received an industrial influx of hydrocarbons from a new exploration well with a depth of 5,322 meters on Svyrydivske field (Poltava region).
“Well SV No. 54 that was spudded in October 2019 has already obtained the commercial inflow of natural gas and gas condensate at the level of 80,000 cubic meters/day and 5 tonnes/day respectively. Currently, the well testing is undertaken, while it is hooked-up to the gas processing facilities,” the company said on its website.
“Modern technologies of well drilling and casing, unique technical solutions, applied while development and testing of well No. 54, enabled to minimize the negative influence on productive reservoirs, retain their fluid loss properties, obtain strong hydrocarbons flow and put a well on production ahead of schedule,” Viktor Dudzych, the CTO of Smart Energy Group, commented.
“Earlier, in Q4, 2019, Smart Energy Group put well No. 119 on operation at Mekhedivsko-Golotovshchynske field in Poltava region. Currently, its average daily production rate is 140,000 cubic meters/day for gas and 25 tonnes/day for gas condensate,” the report says.
