Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said in an interview that Russia’s Gazprom had to fill its Haidach gas depots, otherwise they would have to be leased to other companies.
“We are resolutely considering the issue with Gazprom’s huge gas storage facility in Haidach. If the Russian company does not fill it, we are considering measures to fill it in another way,” the Austrian chancellor told the Kleine Zeitung.
Asked if this meant nationalizing the facility, he said: “No, there are other ways to access the warehouse. The question is ‘either you use it or you lose it’. If you use it, fine. If not, other companies can access it.” “Haidach is important for Germany, but also for the western states of Austria.”
It is noted that today the Kremlin imposed sanctions on the former unit of the state gas company Gazprom in Germany and other entities, which means that they can not receive gas supplies from Russia.
“Sanctions are blocking, so there can be no relations with these companies, nor can they receive (gas) supplies,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov.
In particular, Moscow has imposed sanctions on the owner of the Polish section of the Yamal pipeline that transports Russian gas to Europe, as well as on the former Gazprom plant in Germany, whose subsidiaries are helping to cover Europe’s gas consumption.
Today, daily demands for Russian gas supplies to Slovakia via Ukraine were reduced in proportion to lower deliveries via Ukraine, where one route remains suspended.
Flows through the Yamal-Europe pipeline continued to flow in the opposite direction from Germany to Poland.
Gazprom also said it was continuing to transport gas to Europe via Ukraine at the Suntza entry point, with volumes currently standing at 50.6 million cubic meters (mcm) up from 72 mcm yesterday, Wednesday.
The request for gas supplies through the Sohranivka entry point was rejected by Ukraine, Gazprom said.
Germany, Russia’s largest customer in Europe, said today that some subsidiaries of Gazprom Germania, the former Gazprom plant in Germany that was transferred to the German regulator in April, do not receive any gas due to sanctions.
Germany temporarily took control of Gazprom Germania last month to ensure security of supply. Most of the group’s companies had come under pressure after customers and business partners refused to work with them after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This has created the risk that the owners of key European energy infrastructures will not be able to survive.
Source: Capital
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