Washington: The largest private energy company in Ukraine is advancing with more shipments of liquid natural gas purchases (GNL) of the USA, and be a commercial agreement with a company based in Virginia to Tinent.
“Russian gas cannot be cheap and anyone will be very high,” said Dtek Maxim Tombko CEO to The Post. “The most obvious solution and the practical solution is to replace Russian gas for supply of the United States, and we always wanted to be part of this, part of this global market.”
That could be music for the ears of President Trump, who has listed to end the war in Ukraine and rejuvenate the US oil industry among its main priorities.
It was his mentality of “drill, baby, exercise” that helped the United States becoming a net oil exporter for the first time in 60 years.
“The LNG is growing very fast as a merchandise and our commercial company called D. Trading … several months to structure the first GNL supply of Global Venture,” Tabenko said. “Now we are (in the) next phase of discussion with Global Venture, five to six charges that will be provided this year.”
That first shipping came from Louisiana in December 2024 and made its way “through a Greek terminal,” according to the CEO of Dtek, before your company helped “transfer it to the European gas network.”
Tombko emphasized that the business environment, even for kyiv headquarters like him, has changed since a limited fire with Russia stopped most drone attacks in many of DTEK’s facilities machines.
“My first words in all meetings with Washington officials are the words of thanks to their president and his government that for 2.5 weeks we have not been attacked,” he hears of the agreement that the United States helped to facilitate.
“It’s the first time for three years that we can sleep.”
He pointed out that up to 90% of DTEK’s energy generation capacity was destroyed by Russian forces last July, creating a “cycle of destruction, restoration, destruction.” But from the high partial fire, only a solar farm has a bone blow.
DTEK provides about 40% of kyiv’s electricity.
Tumchenko also praised the Trump administration for its first business approach in international relations, pointing out the change in the conversations that Hes had in Washington and New York with possible US investors to forge a more strategic war against Ukraine
Before Trump assumed the position, the leader of DTEK said that the discussions about war always depended on military assistance, but since then, there has been a change towards “talking exclusively about commercial goods,” Tabenko said.
“While all these discussions are happening, we come to know these companies and bring them to you,” he said. “That is basically what we are doing. So we try to be more practical and we are not waiting.”
His work has also taken him to other European nations such as Norway, where DTEK seeks to modernize his energy network through a 10 -year project worth up to 7 billion euros.
“We have battery storage projects in Poland and battery storage is extremely important for the resistance of our electricity grid and, especially, when Ukraine connected the electricity grid with Europe,” he said.
At the same time, Trump is still looking for a rare land mineral agreement with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which Washington considers a security child who could help discourage Russia to continue pronounced in Ukahine.
“We want to build commercial relationships, but at the same time think about energy security,” said Tombko, pointing out that this could result in a connection of Ukraine gas pipelines with Poland, Hungary or Lithuania.
Currently, Ukraine has the second largest natural gas reserve in the continent and DTEK has the largest gas storage system in the country. It is also home to the Larst nuclear energy plant in Europe.
“The role of Ukraine in the energy security of [the] The European continent underestimated in the past and now our message here is that Ukraine has great potential, “he added, citing 1.2 billion euros in his company’s investments even lasting the war.
When asked about the consequences of Zelensky’s first attempt in the Minerals Agreement, however, Tombko added: “Support President Trump’s position that through investments in Ukraine to bring US companies and invest the balls.
“He cannot replace the defense,” he said, and pointed out that Ukraine still needs traditional security guarantees for lasting peace, “but adds a lot.”