KYIV, April 6 – The state gas shipper Ukrtransgaz and Poland's Gaz-System S.A have launched a non-binding market screening procedure for demand on the volume of natural gas that could be transported across Ukraine to Poland, the Ukrainian company reported.

"Early estimations of the TSOs show that firm capacity could be available to the market from January 1, 2020, therefore a Non-binding market screening procedure for the Capacity at the Polish-Ukrainian Border shall cover the period of 15 years starting from Gas year 2019-2020, taking into account that the capacity in Gas Year 2019-2020 will be available from January 1, 2020 until October 1, 2020," the company said.