REVIEWS UKRAINE GAS INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700010458-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 458
• Publication Date: October 2, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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F.'c:r~?m: e?',.mP-,ted with the use of gas as fuel have been factore in the
.,r;e,sed. d~ti?ecpment of this branch of indust.ry~ Many large csuieliedcwith
Moscow, 1FOinr~,rad, IC1.r~~, and L'~ov have been almost completely PP
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rived.frnm anumber of d.lfferent sourcesa natural gas, predominantly methane,
obsuined from. natural?gas deposits; petroleum gas, obtained either during the
extraction ?..-,r refining of petroleum. metallurgical gas, mainly coke gas, formed
during -the ror.L`tir.g of r.oke; and manufacturer]. gas, soncalled generator gas,
msd- in city plants by processing solid fuel. Although these gases have dif~?
foreni: phV=icochcmica~npropm ?nie8 a*d1arRPeornforaindividuallhomesthey can all
The !7kraine ha=_ natural-?gas reserves adequate to serve as a base for an
extensive gas industry for some time to come. Coke byproducts plants in the
lfkraine produce huge quantitd.es of coke gas and petroleum In additionana].most
fields axe the source of large amounts of petroleum g
every Oblast of the Ukraine has local solid?~fuel reserves of lignite or peat
which can be used to manufacture generator gas
Ukrainian natural. gas ie the cheapest and best in quality of all known
fuel gases.. The Carpathian region has a particularly abundant deposit which
furnishes gas by pipeline to Kiev, and this is only one o2' many rich Ukrainian
gas deposits Every day huidrlaneoto KievanL6vov,cDregobychrsand other cities
grade fuel are carried by p pe??
of the Ukraine. In Kiev alone the use of gas saves several trainloads of coal
a day.
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A- *~ ,T her r foes of ua it is ee.timsted that i.f only 5-6 percent of
tl:F coke gas erodaced. in coke by?~products plants were utilized, it would be
~;~:: f i,1Fnt t:o supply gas *.0 19 of the largest cities of the Donbass and. Dnepr
r.r~=,. Ii~,we~~e., ^n=Y four :i'??ies of the Donbass and Dnepr area have gas fa?-
il,t,?"., and e~s?n them re'-atively few apartments are supplied with gas and
fibs- pop~,lar for _;; r.=?mF:, les= than one percent of the gas produced by coke by~
_ ?~_ Iuc _*_ed ;3t a di=_tance from coke byproducts plants, it is pos??
.ri rel;:. ?' + .? ss made from local lignite or
`;o::. .i, , _,~~,r,L,; ~.t:e ;: u,.,_at:ion with genera .o_
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IrFt?h,;,, f >c ma=e. u:'e in the gasific.at,on of fuel. The fuel to be gasified will
,;;r;;, ,,, a.f{,rent reaionr~ of the Ukraine as follows peat in Lutsk,
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I.., .~ ~ 1 _,,e iFr^". liga~te in Kirovograd, Aleksandriya, Znamenka, and Kre~
menci;'arr ^it:um_nca,s ~oai in Khar'ko~~ and the--. Donbass?
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