Ukraine may completely abandon gas imports

Ukraine has a real chance to completely abandon gas imports, relying on its own natural gas and biogas production.

“Ukraine has a very large potential for biogas production - up to 8 billion cubic meters (bcm) per year. This is a very ambitious goal for the next 10 years. But 0.5 bcm of biogas in 2 years is quite realistic,” Head of the "Operator of the Gas Transportation System of Ukraine" Serhiy Makogon wrote on Facebook, according to Ukraine-based news service UNIAN.

Makogon cited Denmark as an example, where biomethane (biogas brought to the quality of methane) makes up 27 per cent of the gas in the inland grids and a stable growth in its production has been observed over the past 5-6 months. Denmark expects to have a 100 per cent “green” gas system in 2030-2035.