KYIV, Nov 29 – The European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET) for the first time included Ukraine in its annual European Gas Hubs Benchmarking Study, placing Ukraine 18th, the press service of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny reported.

The press service said that Ukraine has 3.5 score and it was less than the following hubs have: NBP (UK), TTF (the Netherlands), ZTP (Belgium) and NCG (Germany). However, Romania and Bulgaria are still lagging behind. The two countries started the liberalization of their gas markets earlier than Ukraine did.