Former fuel and energy minister, MP Yuriy Boiko, the Regions Party, believes that the price of gas supplied from Russia to Ukraine may remain in 2009 at the current level of $179.5 per 1,000 cubic meters due to a global drop in crude oil prices.
"The price of gas is
really pegged to that of oil. There is a special formula. In other
words, gas price depends on those of fuel oil and gasol, which in their
turn depend on the price of crude. We indeed may expect that if this
tendency remains, if the oil price does not change, the gas price
should not exceed $179.5 per 1,000 cubic meters," he said on Radio Era
Thursday
Sorce: proUA
