{"id":429,"date":"2009-12-04T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itn.mattrock.ca\/2009\/12\/04\/in-brief-rumors-of-a-dispute-between-ukrainian-and-viennese-firms-over-natural-gas-surface\/"},"modified":"2013-02-01T02:10:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T08:10:25","slug":"in-brief-rumors-of-a-dispute-between-ukrainian-and-viennese-firms-over-natural-gas-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2009\/12\/04\/in-brief-rumors-of-a-dispute-between-ukrainian-and-viennese-firms-over-natural-gas-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"In Brief:  Rumors of a dispute between Ukrainian and Viennese firms over natural gas surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">By Elizabeth Whitsitt<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">December 6, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Murmurings that Centragas Beteiligungs Holding AG has accused the Ukraine of violating \u201can agreement on the Energy Charter\u201d surfaced in mid-November.*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">According to press reports, the Viennese firm, which holds a 50% interest in Swiss gas distribution company RosUkrEnergo (RUE), alleges that the Ukranian oil and gas company, Naftohaz Ukrainy, expropriated 11 billion cubic meters of gas belonging to RUE during the first quarter of 2009.\u00a0 Those sources also indicate that Centragas Holding AG has requested an amicable settlement of the dispute in accordance with Article 26 of the Energy Charter Treaty.\u00a0 If the dispute cannot be settled within three months from the date on which Centragas Holding AG\u2019s request was made, the parties may find themselves enmeshed in litigation or arbitration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">* \u201cCentragas Beteiligungs accuses Naftogaz of violating Energy Charter,\u201d Ukrainian Journal, 17 November 2009, available at: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukrainianjournal.com\/index.php?w=article&amp;id=9457\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">http:\/\/www.ukrainianjournal.com\/index.php?w=article&amp;id=9457<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u201cFirtash\u2019s company, as co-founder of RosUkrEnergo, Accuses Ukraine&#8230;,\u201d Interfax News Agency, November 17, 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips63','Bilateral investment treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips76','multilateral investment court'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips118','Union europ\u00e9enne'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips119','Uni\u00f3n Europea'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elizabeth Whitsitt December 6, 2009 Murmurings that Centragas Beteiligungs Holding AG has accused the Ukraine of violating \u201can agreement on the Energy Charter\u201d surfaced in mid-November.* According to press [&hellip;]<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2085],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itn","tag-natural-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}