Gazprom to pay less for gas transit via Lithuania

​The price making has changed after the Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulations of Europe (ACER) said that the committee calculates the prices unfairly – Gazprom is to pay only for the use of the main gas pipeline and domestic suppliers – for its offsets. According to the approved this year price making in Lithuania, transit became a regulated activity taking into account gas at the points of exit and entrance, and Gazprom is to pay for the shipped volumes.

The annual fee for the capacity at the point of gas entrance in Kotlovka for gas transit of Gazprom is reduced by 34.8% to 32.32 euro/MWh a day, at the exit in Shakyai- will grow by 8.9% to 41.17 euro, the payment for the shipped gas volume at this point doesn’t change – 0.07 euro/mWh a day.

In H1 2015 the volume of gas transit to the Kaliningrad region fell by 1.8% to 10.996 mln MW against H1 2014. By the unofficial data of BNS, Amber Grid has already completed the negotiations with Gazprom by the issue of gas transit via Lithuania to the Kaliningrad region from 2016 – the agreement will be approved with the Government bodies, and is planned to be signed until mid December. At the entrance point in Kemenai, from where gas is shipped to Latvia and Estonia, the annual fee is reduced by the same amount as for Kotlovka, at the exit – by 23.3% to 38.05 euro.