Fox News: Ukraine receives US natural gas shipment for the 1st time amid fresh supply fears

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Ukraine receives US natural gas shipment for the 1st time amid fresh supply fears

The expiration of Russian piped gas through Ukraine has put EU leaders on edge, sparking fresh supply concerns ahead of a cold winter season.......                    ...                        ...You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login its first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the U.S., energy company officials confirmed this week— a positive development for Kyiv as it moves to ramp up its purchases of U.S. supplies and protect against broader supply concerns in the region.......Ukraine's private energy company, DTEK, confirmed it has received some 100 million cubic meters of U.S. LNG in the shipment, which the U.S. shipped to an LNG regasification terminal in Greece. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The news comes after Ukraine's DTEK inked a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login Venture Global in June.......The DTEK contract is the first significant LNG contract to be struck between Ukraine and the U.S. and will allow Ukraine to purchase an "unspecificed" amount of LNG from Venture Global through 2026. The companies also signed a separate 20-year agreement, in keeping with traditional longer-term LNG supply contracts.......The news comes just hours before Russian gas giant, Gazprom, is slated to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Logins shipped through Ukrainian pipelines to other European countries, following the expiration of its five-year contract.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Ukraine itself does not purchase Russian gas supplies. However, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login on imported gas, including from Russia.......Even after the abrupt throttling of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, the EU depends on piped Russian gas for roughly 5% of its total gas imports— sparking fresh fears as to how the bloc might cope in the event of a supply emergency or You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. ......In the interim, Ukrainian officials said, they hope the additional U.S. supplies can help fill in the gap and help ease any near-term supply crises in the EU......."Cargoes like this are not only providing the region with a flexible and secure source of power, but are further You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login over our energy system," DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko said in a statement. ...

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