The Russian gas consortium Gazprom confirmed on Wednesday that the fuel transit to Europe through Ukrainian territory will be located in 72 million cubic metersin front of the 95.8 million supplied the day before. “Gazprom makes supplies of Russian gas for transit through Ukraine that are set at 72 million cubic meters for May 11,” said the company’s spokesman, Sergey Kuprianov, quoted by the Interfax agency.
Earlier, Ukraine announced the reduction by assuring that it would transport only 72 million cubic meters of gas through the Sudzha measuring pointin the east of the country, located in territory under ukrainian control. Ukraine’s gas transmission network operator announced on Tuesday that it was forced to temporarily interrupt the transit of a third of the gas it transports from Russia to Europe by “force majeure” in full Russian offensive in Ukraine.
“Force Majeure”
“The actions of the occupants led to the interruption of gas transit through the Sojranivka hotspot,” announced the company GasTransmission System Operator of Ukraine (GTSOU) it’s a statement. A “force majeure” makes it impossible to continue transporting gas through that metering point, on the border with Russia, and the Novopskov compression station, both located in the eastern Ukrainian province of Lugansk and in territory controlled by Moscow forces, he explained. kyiv.
Until now they passed through this station 32.6 million cubic meters of gas per day, which represents a third of the total that Ukraine transports to Europe. The GTSOU pointed out that on a temporary basis and to continue supplying gas to Europe in the planned volume, “there is a possibility” of transferring the volume of gas in question from the Sojranivka interconnection point to that of Sudzha, further north.
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In a first comment Gazprom he said he saw no reason to change the gas supply route to Europe through Ukraine.
“Gazprom has not received confirmations of force majeure and does not see any impediments to the continuation of work,” said the spokesman for the Russian company, Sergei Kuprianovon Telegram. According to Gazprom, so far “Ukrainian specialists have worked on a regular basis in Sojranivka and nothing prevents them from continuing the work. As for the possibility of transferring the flows to Sudzha, according to the Russian company, that is “technically impossible”.