There is no preliminary agreement on a long-term Russian gas transit deal between Moscow and Kiev, a senior official at Ukraine’s state-owned Naftogaz Ukrayiny said Monday, following reports Friday of a draft deal. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Gazprom and Naftogaz held a latest round of bilateral talks in Vienna on Friday, after which Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted Naftogaz chief commercial officer Yuriy Vitrenko as saying a preliminary agreement had been reached. However, Vitrenko told S&P Global Platts Monday that he was not aware of “any, even preliminary, agreement on a long-term transit deal.” “We have a preliminary agreement on potential instruments (contractual structure) that can be used for transit if there is a deal,” Vitrenko said. “And we now have to work extremely hard even to finalize the legal structure, because there are still open questions,” he […]