Over 500 illegal filling station gas skids operating in Kiev

Over 500 illegal filling stations gas skids are operating in Kiev and this impairs competition on the market, specialist for relation with government agencies at Shell Yulia Zavalishyna has said. A gas skid is designed to pre-treat natural gas and other combustible gasses prior to injecting into a critical process

"There are over 500 illegal gas skids in Kiev When we raise the issue this violation of law they said: we can do nothing, as these skids do not exist from the legal point of view," she said at the Ukrainian Antitrust Forum in Kiev last week. Zavalishyna said that government agencies pay much attention to legal filling stations that pay all taxes and operate legally.