{"id":1272479,"date":"2025-07-28T12:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/strategically-important-step-ukraine-begins-importing-azerbaijani-gas\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:21:24","slug":"strategically-important-step-ukraine-begins-importing-azerbaijani-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/strategically-important-step-ukraine-begins-importing-azerbaijani-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategically important step: Ukraine begins importing Azerbaijani gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukraine begins importing Azerbaijani gas through the Trans-Balkan Corridor. This will help diversify the country&#8217;s economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/energyofukraine\/4177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was reported<\/a> by the press service of the Ministry of Energy.<\/p>\n<p> For the first time, a test gas supply to Ukraine was carried out from Azerbaijan via the route from Bulgaria through Romania.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This is the result of consistent efforts and negotiations coordinated by the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine at various levels, in particular following the results of the July visit of the Minister of Energy of Ukraine to Baku within the framework of the Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation between Ukraine and the Republic of Azerbaijan,&#8221; the Ministry of Energy said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> It is noted that the gas purchase agreement was concluded between NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine and a company from the SOCAR group &#8211; SOCAR Energy Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Although the supply volumes are currently small, this is of strategic importance, as it opens up the prospect of long-term and mutually beneficial cooperation between our states. In addition, this is another clear example of successful diversification of energy supply sources,&#8221; emphasized Energy Minister Svitlana Grinchuk.<\/p>\n<p> It is noted that the new agreement is of great importance for Ukraine, as it provides access to new sources of gas:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> liquefied gas from Greek and Turkish LNG terminals;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Azerbaijani gas transported by the TAP gas pipeline;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Romanian and potentially Bulgarian offshore production.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-pochynaie-import-amerykanskoho-hazu-cherez-balkany-chomu-tse-vazhlyvo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine began regular imports of American liquefied gas through Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and Moldova in June<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow \u201c <strong>Pryamym<\/strong> \u201d on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine begins importing Azerbaijani gas through the Trans-Balkan Corridor. This will help diversify the country&#8217;s economy. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Energy. For the first time, a test gas supply to Ukraine was carried out from Azerbaijan via the route from Bulgaria through Romania. &#8220;This is the result of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1183310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76878,76892,76870,76871],"class_list":["post-1272479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-society","category-economy","category-world","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}