Authorized Gazprom explained the failure of applications Slovakia for the production and delivery of natural gas from Russia for technical reasons, said the Minister of industry of the Slovak Republic Pavol Pavlis.
" We have registered a decrease in the level of gas supplies to Slovakia, 10 September, " said Pavlis, RIA " Novosti ".- First drop was about 10%, but in the last 2 days have reached a level of 23-25%. For this reason, We found it necessary to communicate with Gazprom to obtain adequate explanations. We in the organization said that the problems are of a technical nature "." Well, we assume that they really are not political but technical in nature, " added Slovak Minister. Before September 12 Slovakia said about the reduction in gas supplies from Russia through Ukraine. This Tuesday, September 16, Slovak gas importer SPP (Slovensky plynarensky priemysel) said on reducing Russian gas supplies by 25%. Remember, June 16 from 10. 00 GMT Gazprom has entered the mode of payment for the supply and stop supplying gas to Ukraine. The pipeline is only intended for transit to the European Union blue fuel in the amount of 185 million cubic meters per day.

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