RosUkrEnergo
| RosUkrEnergo AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | (formerly) stock corporation |
| founding | 2004 |
| Seat | |
| Number of employees | 40 (2008) |
| sales | $ 9.9 billion (2007) |
| Branch | Commodity trading |
RosUkrEnergo AG ( Russian РосУкрЭнерго , or RUE for short ) was a trading company founded in July 2004 and based in Zug , Switzerland, specializing in natural gas . RosUkrEnergo was founded as a Russian-Ukrainian partner company and as an intermediary purchases natural gas in Central Asia ( Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan ) and Russia and sells it in Ukraine to the state-owned company Naftohas and other countries. The stock corporation was deleted in 2015 after the liquidation was completed.
Half of the company belongs to the Russian company Gazprom (through the subsidiary Rosgas Holding AG ), the other half to Centragas Holding AG , which represents Ukrainian entrepreneurs, including Dmytro Firtash (45%) and Ivan Fursin (5%).
Some of the gas imported from Russia by the company is resold on the world market at higher prices, so the natural gas business is extremely lucrative for the middleman. The Ukrainian beneficiaries of these deals were both the environment of the former President Viktor Yushchenko and the party of his successor Viktor Yanukovych .
In the past, Russian natural gas deliveries were halted several times, for example in 2005/2006 and 2008/2009, due to payment delays by the Ukraine. Since such a step also affects the transit of natural gas to EU countries, the natural gas business and the Russian-Ukrainian disputes over this issue are politically sensitive and also have great international significance.
At the beginning of 2009, the then Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko attempted to liquidate RosUkrEnergo or to eliminate the company from the gas trade between the two countries through negotiations with the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin . The natural gas, valued at around USD 4.5 billion, which was still owned by the intermediary at the time, became the property of the Ukrainian state-owned company Naftohas.
After Yanukovych's victory in the 2010 presidential elections in Ukraine , RosUkrEnergo resumed its old role as a middleman. In the course of negotiations before an arbitration institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Naftohas was obliged in March 2011 to hand over eleven billion cubic meters of natural gas to RosUkrEnergo as compensation for the amount of gas withdrawn in January 2009.
The Ukrainian opposition saw this move as justified primarily by the close ties between Dmytro Firtash and the party of Yanukovych. The government of Yanukovych had put pressure on Naftohas and in this way succeeded in getting the state-owned company to explain to the Stockholm Arbitration Institute that the acquisition of RosUkrEnergo gas in 2009 was illegal.
literature
- Jürgen Roth : Gazprom - the uncanny empire . Westend-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86489-000-0 , p. 231 f .
Web links
- Company history ( memento of September 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on the former website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosukrenergo - Financial Report 2007 ( Memento from September 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Nemtsov: Russian part in RosUkrEnergo looks as improper as Ukrainian one . In: UNIAN . March 17, 2008.
- ↑ Konrad Schuller: Russia and Ukraine: The Enemies of the Gas Compromise . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 5, 2008
- ↑ Eric Bonse & Mathias Brüggmann: Permanent conflict: EU pushes for a quick solution to the gas dispute . In: Handelsblatt . January 6, 2009
- ^ Matthias Kolb: Gas dispute between Ukraine and Russia - "Unscrupulous shadow company" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 8, 2009
- ^ Nico Lange: Ukraine: The Tymoshenko Case . Website of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . June 27, 2011
- ↑ After the dispute was resolved: Ukrainian supplier returns gas to middlemen . In: RIA Novosti . March 1, 2011
- ↑ Konrad Schuller: Ukraine: The rope team pulled the strings at both ends . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 24, 2010