Ukraine plans to stop transit gas in the east
Created: 05/11/2022, 09:46 am
According to data from the network operator OGTSU, Ukraine is preparing a transit stop for Russian gas through the Luhansk region in the east.
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Gas transit to Europe through the Luhansk region has apparently been stopped.
This is indicated by data from the operator GTSOU.
Gazprom left open whether other routes can compensate for the failure.
According to data from the network operator OGTSU, Ukraine is preparing a transit stop for Russian gas through the Luhansk region in the east that has been announced for Wednesday.
This can also have an impact on the supply in Europe.
Only orders from Russian energy giant Gazprom were accepted for the westbound transit through the Soyuz pipeline that day, in which gas is pumped to a station on Russian territory, according to data from Ukraine's gas network operator OGTSU on Wednesday morning.
News agencies in Moscow also referred to this information.
Initially, there was no official notification from the Ukrainian side confirming that the partial transit stop had actually taken place.
72 million cubic meters of gas affected
According to operator data, a total of 72 million cubic meters of Russian gas is planned to be routed through Ukraine on Wednesday.
On Tuesday it was more than 88 million cubic meters.
Ukraine announced on Tuesday that it had to stop the transit of Russian gas in Luhansk due to the war.
As a result, up to 32.6 million cubic meters of gas per day were lost - that is almost a third of the maximum amount that can be transported via Ukraine to Europe every day, it said.
Due to the Russian occupation, it had become impossible to control the Sochranivka point and the Novopskov compressor station, it said.
The operator referred to a case of "force majeure".
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Gazprom, in turn, said it had "not received any confirmation of force majeure circumstances."
The Ukrainians have been working "undisturbed" in Sochranivka in recent weeks.
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