Ukrtransgas PJSC (Kyiv) announced a tender for voluntary motor transport insurance on June 15, the electronic procurement system Prozorro reports.
The expected price of purchasing the respective services is UAH 229.5 thousand.
The deadline to apply for participation is June 23.
“Ukrtranshaz, which is 100% owned by Naftogaz of Ukraine, operates a system of main gas pipelines and 12 underground gas storages in the country.
On May 18 Ukrtransgas PJSC (Kyiv) announced a tender for compulsory civil liability insurance of business entities against damage that can be caused by fires and accidents at high-risk facilities, including fire-hazardous facilities and facilities where business activity can lead to accidents of environmental and sanitary-and-epidemiologic nature, the Prozorro electronic procurement system informs.
The expected purchase price of the relevant services -94.559 thousand UAH.
Last day to apply for participation – May 29
“Ukrtransgas”, 100% owned by “Naftogaz of Ukraine”, operates a system of main gas pipelines and 12 underground gas storages of the country.
Ukrtranshaz JSC, the operator of Ukraine’s underground gas storage facilities, has started the gas injection season as part of preparations for next winter, Naftogaz of Ukraine board chairman Oleksiy Chernyshov said.
“Now gas is being accumulated for the next heating season 2023/2024. Due to favorable weather conditions, the previous season of gas withdrawal from underground storage facilities was one of the shortest in Ukraine in recent years,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
Chernyshov also specifies that during the period from October 7, 2022, to mid-April 2023, 5.572 billion cubic meters of gas has been withdrawn from Ukrainian underground storage facilities.
As reported, at the beginning of March 2023, Naftohaz said in a presentation by the company to holders of defaulted Eurobonds that 13.9 billion cubic meters of natural gas was used during the heating season 2022/2023, of which 1 billion cubic meters was imported, 5.3 billion cubic meters – gas lift from UGS, and 7.6 billion cubic meters – extraction by Ukrhazvydobuvannya.
At the beginning of March 2023 there were about 10 billion cubic meters of gas in the Ukrainian underground gas storages, the NJSC sets a task to accumulate at least 15 billion cubic meters of gas in the storages by the beginning of the season 2023/2024.
The system of 12 underground gas storages of Ukrtransgas, which is 100% owned by Naftogaz of Ukraine, has a total nominal capacity of 31 billion cubic meters. m, and includes Bilche-Volytsko-Uherske UGS (17.05 billion cubic meters), Uherske (1.9 billion cubic meters), Dashavske (2.15 billion cubic meters), Oparske (1.92 billion cubic meters), Bogorodchanske (2.3 billion cubic meters), Krasnopartyzanske (2.5 billion cubic meters). The following three categories of cu.m. are currently under review: Krasnopartyzanske (1.5 bcm), Solokhivske (1.3 bcm), Olyshevske (0.31 bcm), Proletarske (1 bcm), Kehychivske (0.7 bcm), Krasnopopopivske (0.42 bcm) and Verhunske (0.4 bcm) located in the temporarily occupied territory.)
The operator of Ukraine’s gas storages Ukrtransgas JSC planned to perform overhaul of 10 wells and also work on intensification of 20 more on one of the West Ukrainian underground gas storages (UGS) in 2023.
“Well workovers continue these days at one of the West Ukrainian UGS facilities. The overhaul crew has completed work on the facilities renewed since 2022 and has begun new work,” the company said in a telegram on Wednesday.
“Ukrtransgas”, in particular, started a thorough inspection of the systems at two wells of the gas storage facility and, if necessary, will replace its individual elements. The aim of the works is to restore the productivity of these wells to the designed indicators and increase safety of their further operation.
“It should be noted that in 2022 about 20% of the well stock of this subway well was repaired”, – informed the JSC.
Last year the specialists of the UGSF overhaul group replaced the system components such as stop valves, flowing valves, core heads, etc., tested the tightness of joints and conducted a complex of geophysical studies to ascertain the serviceability and reliability of the wells.
“The performed repair works allowed increasing the calculated productivity of the wells by 11%, improved safety and reliability of gas storage in UGSF, stability of its withdrawal and injection in the future”, – summed up in “Ukrtransgas”.
The Cabinet of Ministers at a meeting on Friday appointed Oleg Tolmachov as acting director general of Ukrhazvydobuvannya instead of Alexander Romaniuk and Roman Malyutin as acting director general of Ukrtranshaz instead of Serhiy Pereloma.
This was reported by the Naftogaz group on Friday evening.
“Roman Malyutin and Oleg Tolmachev are high-class specialists with considerable experience in the oil and gas sector. They are well acquainted with global experience, but have also worked hard in Ukraine and understand the challenges we are currently facing,” said Naftogaz Group head Alexey Chernyshov.
Oleg Tolmachev, who headed Naftogaz Group’s Naftogaz Upstream division, became Ukrhazvydobuvannya’s acting director.
Oleg Tolmachev has more than 20 years of experience in hydrocarbon production in North America. He has held senior positions in gas production companies in the US such as BP America, Chesapeake Energy, EnCana Oil & Gas USA, Eclipse Resources and Montage Resources. In particular, he led high-tech projects to develop large gas and gas condensate fields in North America. Among his responsibilities were increasing the economic efficiency of projects, formation and management of multifunctional teams (geology, development, drilling, production, preparation and processing of hydrocarbons).
Roman Malyutin, who has over 20 years of experience at gas transmission and storage companies, was appointed Acting Head of Ukrtransgas JSC, the operator of all Ukrainian underground gas storages.
Roman Malyutin went all the way from an operator and engineer at Kegichevsk UGS to Deputy Chief Engineer of the eastern region of the Ukrainian Gas Transmission System Operator. For the last year and a half he headed the technical department of Ukrtransgas JSC, where he was responsible for the operation of compressor stations, areas of energy and metrology, and also accompanied projects to develop low-carbon technologies and storage of hydrogen mixtures.
