Gazprom stopped pumping gas through the Polish section of the pipeline " Yamal - Europe ".

the operator Gascade receiving energy within Germany, pumping in this segment fell from nine million kilowatt-hours on Sunday to 461, 5 thousand kilowatt-hours in the first day of the week, and by eight in the morning of Tuesday completely stopped.

Senior group Director natural resources and commodities, Fitch Dmitry marinchenko said that "Gazprom" has stopped gas transit to balance the export due to oversupply.

at the same time the analyst believes that long-term cessation of transit through the Polish section should not wait: "Gazprom" ought to keep all routes to be prepared for potential increased demand in the future, for this reason, the minimum amount of gas will eventually be pumped.

the contract for gas transit from Russia through Poland expired on 16 may, now the pumping segment of the "Yamal - Europe" passes only on results of the auctions. So for June, it was booked about 94% of the capacity of the pipeline.

The official representative of "Gazprom" Sergei Kupriyanov had previously said that, despite the expiration of a contract with Warsaw, the supply of gas through the Polish section however, will continue. For its part, the representative of the government of Poland on energy infrastructure Piotr Naimski said that the country expects to keep the volume of supplies of Russian gas through its territory.



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