Ukrgazvydobuvannya has abandoned Russian methanol.
JSC Ukrgazvydobuvannya has signed new annual agreements for the supply of methanol, which is used in gas production and transportation. For the first time, the selected suppliers include companies that declared supplies from Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Azerbaijan, and the European Union. In previous years, supplies came from Russia and Belarus. The founders of the new suppliers have minor criminal convictions. The existing suppliers are facing charges of price gouging under the "Rotterdam+" formula (not to be confused with the DTEK "coal case"), according to the report. Our money.
On October 12, Narni-Trade LLC was awarded a contract worth UAH 92,5 million. The indicative price of methanol was set at UAH 46249 per ton, or EUR 1298. Supplies were declared from Caribbean Gas Chemical Limited, Socar, and Supermetanol CA.
Ukrgazvydobuvannya has abandoned Russian methanol.
On October 10, Interregional Quality Supplies LLC received a contract worth UAH 92,4 million. The indicative price for methanol is UAH 46200 per ton, or EUR 1299. The listed manufacturer is Miderhelm Methanol Vertribes, which sells methanol produced by Mitteldeutsche Erdoel-Raffinerie GmbH (MIDER).
Ukrgazvydobuvannya conducted procurement without using the ProZorro electronic system. The contracts contain a clause restricting supplies from manufacturers subject to sanctions due to Russia's attack on Ukraine.
The prices in these contracts are significantly higher than in previous years, when Russian and Belarusian methanol was supplied, and global gas prices were significantly lower than today's levels.
January 2021 AGTG SA (Switzerland) 281 euros, April 2020 AGTG SA 252 euros, April 2020 Socar logistics dmcc n/a, Criminal proceedings, August 2019 AGTG SA 279 euros. 301 euros, July 2018 AGTG SA 420 euros, July 2018 Petrochemical Systems LP 395 euros, February 2018 Petrochemical Systems LP 413 euros, February 2018 AGTG SA 400 euros, October 2017 Petrochemical Systems LP 279 euros. // Ukrgazvydobuvannya refused Russian methanol
Ukrgazvydobuvannya's previous contract, signed in November 2021, had an indicative price of €450 per ton. In 2019–2020, prices were between €250–300. At that time, the supplier was the Swiss intermediary company AGTG SA, owned by Geneva-based lawyer Thierry Boon.
Ukrgazvydobuvannya has abandoned Russian methanol.
Ukrgazvydobuvannya has abandoned the criminal activities of its predecessors during the Poroshenko era.
In 2018, Ukrgazvydobuvannya's purchase prices were €400-420, one and a half times higher than in 2017. At that time, the supplier, along with a Swiss firm, was the Scottish company Petrochemical Systems LP. Its nominal owner is Tiffany Brown, a resident of the offshore tax haven Belize, who is one of the beneficiaries of Easy Life Asset Management Company LLC. Since 2011, this company has held 80% of the shares of Cherkasy Bus PJSC, previously owned by Petro Poroshenko.
Oleh Prokhorenko, in turn, served as Ukrdobycha's director from 2016 to 2018. He joined the state-owned company from McKinsey, where Poroshenko's son's wife worked alongside him. See also. Ukrgazvydobuvannya paid Akhmetov 2 million for sponsorship near Maryna Poroshenko's exercise area..
The SBU's economic counterintelligence service detected signs of criminal activity in Ukrgazvydobuvannya's actions under those 2018 contracts. However, since 2019, the Main Investigation Department of the National Police has been conducting criminal proceedings. Investigators note that Ukrgazvydobuvannya pegged its prices to Rotterdam methanol prices in its contracts with the aforementioned companies.
"The expected price of the product, according to the stated formula, is UAH 32,300 per ton, while its actual price, as offered by Ukrainian resident companies, is approximately UAH 22,000 per ton. At the same time, AGTG SA and Petrochemical Systems LP, exploiting inefficient methanol pricing and, under the guise of supplying it supposedly from the ports of Rotterdam, actually organized the aforementioned methanol purchase in the Russian Federation (Metafrax PJSC, Shchekino OJSC) and the Republic of Belarus (Grodno Azot OJSC), followed by its shipment to branches of Ukrgazvydobuvannya JSC," the investigators stated.
After the case was opened in 2019, methanol prices for Ukrgazvydobuvannya returned to 2017 levels. The investigation is currently ongoing. The Pechersky District Court extended it until November 7, 2022.
Criminal records of new suppliers
Interregional Quality Delivery LLC was founded by Poltava residents Dmitry Shusterman and Yulia Olepire. The company previously received contracts from Uktransgaz to supply Russian methanol. In May 2021, the company received a contract to supply methanol at a price of UAH 29 per ton on a DDP basis, or EUR 860 per ton. This was three times higher than Ukrgazvydobuvannya's contract with AGTG SA last year for Russian methanol at EUR 281.
According to the system data You controlIn 2019, Shusterman was charged with stealing two bottles of beer from a store worth 74 hryvnias. However, the case was dismissed due to the expiration of the administrative penalty.
Yulia Olepire was also involved in three court cases related to administrative violations related to accounting and tax records management at Interregional Quality Supplies. However, these cases were also dismissed when the administrative penalties expired.
Narni-Trade LLC is currently registered to its director, Anastasia Vachaeva, from the village of Siryaki in the Kharkiv region. Until earlier this year, the owner was Alexander Pork from the town of Sorokino in the Luhansk region. The company has not yet received any government contracts, but it competed with Interregional Quality Supply in a Ukrtransgaz tender.
In 2021, Oleksandr Pork was charged in a criminal case in Zhytomyr under Part 4 of Article 189 of the Criminal Code, which provides for extortion causing property damage on an especially large scale, or committed by an organized group, or involving actual grievous bodily harm. Narni-Trade posted bail for the detainee in the amount of 252 UAH. In early 2022, this case was reclassified under the lesser charge of Part 2 of Article 125 (intentional minor bodily harm) and closed due to the victims' withdrawal of prosecution. The bail was returned to the company.
After this, Pork again became a defendant in the case. On April 4, 2022, "at approximately 9:50 a.m. in the village of Stopchat on Tsentralnyi Street, Kosivskyi District, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, he behaved inappropriately in a public place, used obscene language, and failed to respond to warnings, thereby disturbing public order and the peace of citizens." The court fined him 51 hryvnias.
The current head of Ukrgazvydobuvannya is Oleksiy Romanyuk. He joined the state-owned company in 2015 and served as the company's first deputy director until 2022. Prior to that, he served as an advisor to the CEO of EastOne Group for five years. Victor Pinchuk — the main supplier of pipes for Ukrgazvydobuvannya and the owner of gas production companies Geo Alliance.
Yuri Nikolov, translation Skelet.Org
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