The energy company DTEK has imported a shipment of liquefied natural gas from the United States via a terminal in Lithuania. According to Bloomberg,
the D.Trading division delivered approximately 100 million cubic meters of gas from the Plaquemines plant of Venture Global Inc. in Louisiana to the Klaipeda terminal.
This marks the first instance of a Ukrainian trader being responsible for chartering a tanker, having loaded LNG onto the Gaslog Houston on October 20.
Following significant damage to its energy infrastructure due to Russian attacks, Ukraine is seeking new avenues to diversify its energy supplies, as reported by Bloomberg.
For D.Trading, which has previously supplied American LNG through Greece, access to the Lithuanian terminal provides alternatives for delivery via the northern corridor linking Ukraine to Poland and the Baltic states.
“We are collaborating with our European and American partners to develop cost-effective routes to enhance gas supplies to Ukraine and neighboring countries. The company estimates that Ukraine will need approximately 4 billion cubic meters of gas imports this winter following the Russian attacks,” said DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko.
As reported, at the end of December 2024, DTEK received its first shipment of 100 million cubic meters of LNG from the United States after an LNG vessel docked in Greece. DTEK manages the energy assets of SCM owned by Rinat Akhmetov.