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First ever electronic trading on natural gas held in Ukraine
28.07.2015 21:49 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
The Universal Commodity Exchange "Contract house «UICE» held the first electronic trading on Jul 27 on forward contracts for supply of natural gas with delivery in Aug 2015, UNIAN says referring to the UICE website report.
«Trades held by UICE comply with the principles of the new edition of the Law of Ukraine „On the natural gas market“, which will come into effect on 1 October 2015, as well as the principles of the European Energy Charter and the Third Energy Package of the European Union,» the report runs.
As to the report, the price of natural gas at the first auction amounted to
UAH5,225 per 1000 m3, not including cost of transport services, tariffs for which are regulated by the National Commission for Energy Regulatory and Public Services.
«It is expected that as the number of participants in the gas exchange will grow, the auctions will be held on a daily basis, and their results will form the ‘Ukrainian index of prices for natural gas’.
Resident companies of Ukraine as well as international players can act as Participants in these trades. It is assumed that not only gas companies, trading companies and industrial users of natural gas will participate as bidders, but also budgetary and public institutions, which are currently forced to buy gas from monopoly structures at a price above the market price,» the report reads.
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