Northern Gas Networks (NGN) has joined up with Britain’s gas transmission and distribution networks to assemble key specialist components helping to repair and replace infrastructure damaged during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

NGN has team with Cadent, National Grid Gas Transmission, SGN and Wales & West Utilities, with further support from IGEM, to donate large-scale specialist equipment, gathered at an operational site in the East Midlands before being shipped to where it is desperately needed in Ukraine.

The shipment of equipment on its way to Ukraine in Derbyshire, UK.

The industry effort also received financial support from the Institution of Gas Engineers & Managers (IGEM), and engagement help from the Polish Government’s Strategic Reserve Agency ‘Help Ukraine’ scheme and the European Energy Community‘s Ukraine Support Task Force.

Mark Horsley, CEO of Northern Gas Networks, said: “Our colleagues have been shocked and saddened by recent events in Ukraine, and were motivated to help Ukrainian citizens and our counterparts in the Ukrainian energy sector, using our specialist expertise.

“Alongside the terrible human toll, the war has caused immense damage to Ukrainian energy infrastructure and has seriously disrupted the provision of warmth and energy to their citizens. We hope that our action in gathering equipment over the past few weeks can restore to civilians some of the infrastructure required to restore warmth and power, and we will continue to offer our skills and knowledge however we can.”