The Polish state-owned natural gas company PGNiG has announced that it will take steps to restore Russian gas supplies under the Yamal contract. He emphasized that he considers the suspension of gas delivery to be a breach of contract, and based on this, he has the right to demand compensation.
Mateusz Morawiecki , following a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Tuesday, claimed that Gazprom had threatened Poland to stop gas deliveries. Morawiecki suggested that Moscow might want to blackmail Warsaw in this way.
At the same time, the Polish Prime Minister emphasized that his country is already prepared in advance to diversify its gas supply, so Poland's economy is not in danger.
Polish Environment Minister Anna Moskwa As he said, gas reservoirs in Poland are 76 percent full, but for now there is no need to open the reserve, and the gas supply to Polish consumers will not be restricted either.
Piotr Naimski , the Polish government's energy commissioner, said that Gazprom's missed deliveries will be covered from other sources. He also drew attention to the fact that the Jamal contract would have expired in December 2022 anyway.
No ruble, no gas
The Polish state natural gas company PGNiG purchases natural gas directly from the Russian state giant Gazprom based on a long-term contract that expires at the end of 2022.
The level of gas flow on the Yamal-Europe natural gas pipeline going through Belarus to Poland was already zero kilowatt hours (kWh) at 16:00 Hungarian time on Tuesday, while the same figure was still 52,634,785 kWh/day early Tuesday morning. according to compression network data.
Poland has repeatedly announced that it will not accept the Kremlin's demand to pay for natural gas in rubles under new rules announced by Moscow in March.
Russia has warned Europe that if it refuses to pay in rubles for Russian natural gas, it risks suspending or completely stopping supplies.
In March, the Kremlin issued a resolution recommending that companies buying energy carriers open bank accounts directly with Gazprombank, pay in euros or dollars, which are converted into rubles in Moscow.
The European Commission, on the other hand, advised that European natural gas companies continue to pay in the currency in which they agreed in the contract with Gazprom. 97 percent of these contracts specified the payment currency in euros or dollars.
On Tuesday, Poland announced that 50 Russian oligarchs and companies, including Gazprom, are on the sanctions list, who can be hit with new punitive measures, including the freezing of their assets in Poland, based on a Polish law adopted at the beginning of April.
The Polish Sanctions Act is independent of the punitive measures jointly adopted by the EU.
Russia's Gazprom will stop gas deliveries to Bulgaria from Wednesday
According to the ministry, the Russian gas industry giant informed the Bulgarian state natural gas company Bulgargaz about this.
The ministry announced that steps were taken together with the state energy companies to deal with the situation and for the country to cover the lost gas shipments from alternative sources.
For the time being, the Sofia management does not limit the gas supply to Bulgarian consumers.
The Sofia government considers it to be in conflict with the provisions of the natural gas purchase contract, which expires at the end of the year, and to be associated with a significant risk. qualified the two-step payment mechanism proposed by the Russian side. Bulgaria buys more than 90 percent of its natural gas from Gazprom.
Russia has warned Europe that if it refuses to pay in rubles for Russian natural gas, it risks suspending or completely stopping supplies.
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