Russian TV Shows Pipeline Control Room Cutting Gas to Ukraine
Posted on: Sunday, 1 January 2006, 09:00 CST
Gazprom's decision to switch off Russian gas to Ukraine is already being carried out on the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline, Russian Channel One television reported.
A correspondent reported from a compressor station in Kursk Region near the Ukrainian border that the decision to cut the gas had been taken at the central Gazprom offices in Moscow at 1000 hours [0700 gmt].
"At about 1015 [0715 gmt], the order came to reduce the flow of gas here, at this sector of the gas pipeline in close proximity to the Ukrainian border. The flow of gas is being reduced more than significantly - by 36m cu.m. per day from the previous 46m cu.m. That means that only 10m cu.m. per day will remain," correspondent Aleksey Petrov said.
The video showed a pipeline installation with the sign "Trunk Gas Pipeline Yelets-Kursk-Kiev", and a sign on a building saying "Sudzha Gas Measurement Station".
The report showed Aleksandr Glazkritskiy, chief of the Mostransgaz branch of the Kursk Trunk Pipelines Directorate, saying in a control room: "There has been confirmation that we are reducing it by 36m."
Glazkritskiy was shown giving instructions by telephone in a control room: "Fine. That's clear. So 11m remain in play. Yes. Yes. And through the big pipes - nothing. Fine. That's clear. Good. Let the operators work on it. Good."
The correspondent said that of the five trunk gas pipelines leading from Russia to Ukraine, two carry gas to Ukraine and three to Europe. He said gas measurement stations in Sudzha and on the Ukrainian-Slovak border will make it possible to monitor whether the gas is getting through to European consumers.
"Gazprom, I stress, has again been pointing out that switching off Russian gas to Ukraine will have no impact on European consumers and their European partners - if, of course, part of the gas does not get lost somewhere in Ukraine's pipelines," Petrov said.
Source: BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union
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