Gas in Ukraine
For the first time in Ukraine, encountered natural gas while drilling and operating oil wells in the Borislav oil field. The gas industry developed not only in the south and later in the west but also in the east of Ukraine. Here, its development was associated, as in other European countries, with the use of coke oven gas for underground coal gasification. In the 30s of the twentieth century. In the Donetsk coal basin, the first short-length gas pipelines were built, in particular from the Rudchenkovsky coke-chemical plant to the Metallurgical plant in Donetsk
