Ukraine sets up taskforce to map out new routes for Azeri energy supplies
KIEV – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich signed a decree on the formation of a working group to map out new routes for energy supplies from Azerbaijan through Ukraine’s territory, Ukrainian President’s website reported.
Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko was appointed as head of the working group.
Ukraine and Azerbaijan reached an agreement on the Azerbaijani oil deliveries to Ukraine during President Viktor Yanukovych’s visit to Baku in April 2011. Azerbaijani Energy Minister Natig Aliyev and Yuriy Boyko signed the agreement between the governments of Azerbaijan and Ukraine on measures to promote cooperation in the oil transportation through Ukraine in Davos in January 2011.
Today, the Azerbaijani and Ukrainian national oil and gas companies are parties to an international pipeline consortium Sarmatia, which involves the construction and operation of the Brody-Plotsk-Gdansk pipeline project. Transportation of the Azerbaijani oil through the Odessa-Brody pipeline, both to Ukrainian and Belarusian oil refineries, has already been launched.
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