Europe being weaned off reverse gas supplies,Gazprom doesn’t give additional gas for Kiev

Gazprom is continuing to sabotage the increased applications of European gas consumers: following Poland,yesterdy it didn’t fully fulfill applications of Slovakia. This policy has led to the stopp of the reverse gas supplies to the Ukraine from Poland, Slovakia only reduced the volume of the reverse for a while. Kiev has stated that Russia is using energy as a weapon. According to European experts, if the EU is sure that Gazprom has targeted attacks on the reverse supplies to the Ukraine, it will be able to toughen its stance towards the company.

The new approach of Gazprom to the supply of gas to Europe, which has already forced Poland to abandon the reverse supplies to the Ukraine on Wednesday, has begun to work in the Slovakian direction. Last week, the reverse supplies to Kiev from Slovakia reached the maximum level of 26.2 million cubic meters per day, which theoretically allows the Ukraine to receive 30% of its annual needs in imported gas via this route. But on Wednesday the reverse from Slovakia stopped for the first time this week: according to the operator Eustream, the pumping decreased to 25.5 million cubic meters. The Thursday application for the reverse still was 26.2 million cubic meters, but yesterday at the time of putting the issue to bed, the supplies didn’t exceed 10 million cubic meters. At the same time, the taking of Russian gas in Slovakia itself continued to decline, although from the beginning of September the fall made up about 30% as compared with the levels of the end of August. Yesterday, the Slovak gas supplying company SPP reported that Gazprom didn’t implement its daily application by 10%. Gazprom stated that it kept the volume of the deliveries at the same level.

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