Russian energy company Gazprom has stopped sending gas via a pipeline - the Yamal pipeline - through Poland. The company said this, according to the AFP news agency. This is due to Russian sanctions against Western companies.
- A ban on transactions and payments to companies affected by sanctions has been introduced, Gazprom wrote in a statement.
- For Gazprom, this means a ban on using the pipeline, owned by Europol GAZ, to transport Russian gas through Poland.
Europol GAZ owns the Polish section of the 684-kilometer-long Yamal pipeline. The pipeline can transport up to 33 billion cubic meters of gas from areas on the Russian Yamal Peninsula and Western Siberia through Belarus and Poland to Germany. This is reported by the Reuters news agency.
No panic
At the end of April, energy giant Gazprom announced that Poland and Bulgaria would no longer receive gas from the pipeline. At the time, it was because the two countries did not want to pay for the gas in rubles. In Germany on Thursday, there was no panic over Gazprom's latest announcement.
- Virtually no gas has been sent to Germany through this pipeline for several weeks, says a spokesman for Germany's energy regulator.
- The largest share of the gas was sent to Poland, it is said.
Germany's climate minister, Anna Moskwa, said on Thursday that Poland would also be able to manage without supplies from the Yamal pipeline. This is reported by Reuters.
Gazprom is a Russian state-owned energy company. It has a monopoly on Russian exports through natural gas pipelines. Russia announced on Wednesday evening that it had imposed sanctions on more than 30 energy companies from the EU, the US and Singapore. This was in response to Western sanctions against Russia, a decree from the Russian government said.
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