The name of Oleksandr Romanyuk is hardly known to a wide circle of people. However, he is well known in his professional environment. Behind the shoulders of the 46-year-old manager are various managerial positions in the company "Ukrgazvydobuvannya", a "subsidiary" of NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine" . UGV, as Romanyuk calls it for short, produces 70% of Ukrainian gas. According to Romanyuk, even in war conditions, the market value of Ukrgazvydobuvannya with its deposits and licenses is up to $10 billion.

Oleksandr Romaniuk was released in January. This is how his seven-month term in the post of acting head ended. of the General Director of Ukrgazvydobuvannya, which began in May 2022. Romanyuk himself claims that he left the company of his own free will. This happened three months later, when instead of Yury Vitrenka , Naftogaz was headed by former minister Oleksiy Chernyshov .

A LIGA.net journalist met with Oleksandr Romanyuk in one of the cafes in Kyiv. The initiator of the meeting was Romanyuk himself. And although the manager said almost nothing about the reasons for his own dismissal, Romanyuk does not hide his critical attitude towards Naftogaz. If the epithets "patriotic" and "professional" come to him when he mentions Ukrgazvydobuvannya, then when he mentions Naftogaz, the manager's associations are not too kind: "slow" and "inefficient".

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