DTEK Expands US Gas Imports via Lithuania

The energy company DTEK has imported a shipment of American liquefied natural gas (LNG) through the Klaipeda terminal in Lithuania. According to Bloomberg, the D.Trading division successfully delivered its first cargo of approximately 100 million cubic meters of gas from the Plaquemines plant of Venture Global Inc. in Louisiana.
This marks the first instance where a Ukrainian trader was responsible for chartering a tanker, loading LNG onto the Gaslog Houston vessel on October 20.
In response to Russian attacks that destroyed over half of the country’s domestic gas production last month, Ukraine aims to diversify its energy supplies, as reported by Bloomberg.
For D.Trading, which has already shipped American LNG via Greece, accessing the Lithuanian terminal provides new avenues for deliveries through a northern corridor connecting Ukraine with Poland and the Baltic states.
"We are collaborating with European and American partners to develop cost-effective routes for increasing gas supplies to Ukraine and neighboring countries. The company estimates that Ukraine will need around 4 billion cubic meters of imported gas this winter following the Russian attacks," said DTEK's CEO Maxim Timchenko.
As previously reported, at the end of December 2024, DTEK received its first shipment of 100 million cubic meters of liquefied natural gas from the United States after an LNG vessel docked in Greece. DTEK manages the energy assets of SCM Group owned by Rinat Akhmetov.