{"id":23000,"date":"2018-12-20T16:20:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=23000"},"modified":"2018-12-20T16:20:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:20:02","slug":"a-way-to-natural-gas-extraction-in-ukraine-is-opening-for-eph","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/press-releases\/a-way-to-natural-gas-extraction-in-ukraine-is-opening-for-eph\/","title":{"rendered":"A way to natural gas extraction in&nbsp;Ukraine is opening for EPH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EP Power Europe, a.s. (EPPE), a&nbsp;subsidiary of&nbsp;the&nbsp;company Energetick\u00fd a&nbsp;pr\u016fmyslov\u00fd holding, a.s. (EPH) has approached the&nbsp;possibility of&nbsp;natural gas extraction in&nbsp;the&nbsp;east of&nbsp;Ukraine. On 18 December 2018 the&nbsp;Ukrainian government approved an agreement on the&nbsp;reallocation of&nbsp;gas extraction revenues between the&nbsp;state and&nbsp;the&nbsp;company Yuzgaz B.V., a&nbsp;company which in&nbsp;the&nbsp;past won the&nbsp;opportunity to extract gas under the&nbsp;so-called Yuzivska license.<\/p>\n<p>Just the&nbsp;closure of&nbsp;this agreement was one of&nbsp;the&nbsp;conditions for EPPE to be able to complete the&nbsp;process of&nbsp;buying a&nbsp;100% stake in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Yuzgaz company \u00a0from the&nbsp;Luxembourg company Emerstone Energy S.C. At the&nbsp;same time, EPPE takes over all commitments to the&nbsp;Ukrainian government arising from existing agreements with Yuzgaz on reallocation of&nbsp;gas extraction revenues.<\/p>\n<p>In Ukraine, the&nbsp;technical operator of&nbsp;this project, will be the&nbsp;Slovak company NAFTA, a.s. Its&nbsp;majority shareholder with 56.15% of&nbsp;shares SPP Infrastructure, a.s., in&nbsp;which the&nbsp;Slovak state holds 51% and&nbsp;EP Infrastructure, a.s. (EPIF) the&nbsp;remaining 49%. EPIF is also part of&nbsp;the&nbsp;EPH group. EPH, through EPIF, also controls about 40% of&nbsp;NAFTA shares.<\/p>\n<p>NAFTA is already active in&nbsp;Ukraine. Next year, three wells will be drilled under the&nbsp;Uzhgorod license, where Nafta cooperates with CUB Energy Inc.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We perceive Ukraine as a&nbsp;prospective market where the&nbsp;collaboration of&nbsp;investor and&nbsp;state may bring positive effects for both parties,&#8221;<\/em> says Robert Bundil, Project Manager of&nbsp;EPH.<\/p>\n<p>The license for Yuzivska gas field covers an area of&nbsp;\u200b\u200balmost eight thousand square kilometers in&nbsp;the&nbsp;territories Kharkov and&nbsp;Donetsk. According to the&nbsp;assumptions, the&nbsp;volume of&nbsp;mining should rise up in&nbsp;a&nbsp;row to billions cubic meters per year. The&nbsp;gas will be used mainly for internal needs of&nbsp;Ukraine and&nbsp;for strengthening the&nbsp;self-sufficiency of&nbsp;natural gas extraction in&nbsp;the&nbsp;country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EP Power Europe, a.s. (EPPE), a&nbsp;subsidiary of&nbsp;the&nbsp;company Energetick\u00fd a&nbsp;pr\u016fmyslov\u00fd holding, a.s. (EPH) has approached the&nbsp;possibility of&nbsp;natural gas extraction in&nbsp;the&nbsp;east of&nbsp;Ukraine. On 18 December 2018 the&nbsp;Ukrainian government approved an agreement on the&nbsp;reallocation of&nbsp;gas extraction revenues between the&nbsp;state and&nbsp;the&nbsp;company Yuzgaz B.V., a&nbsp;company which in&nbsp;the&nbsp;past won the&nbsp;opportunity to extract gas under the&nbsp;so-called Yuzivska license. Just the&nbsp;closure of&nbsp;this agreement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"tax-year":[73],"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[{"locale":"cs_CZ","id":22999,"post_title":"EPH se otev\u00edr\u00e1 cesta k t\u011b\u017eb\u011b zemn\u00edho plynu na Ukrajin\u011b","href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/eph-se-otevira-cesta-k-tezbe-zemniho-plynu-na-ukrajine\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/23000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tax-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax-year?post=23000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}