Due to interruption of gas flow from Germany: France no longer receives Russian gas via pipelines
Created: 06/18/2022, 06:08
By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi
According to information from France, the country no longer receives Russian gas via pipelines.
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According to the responsible network operator, France no longer receives gas from Russia via pipelines.
This probably has something to do with Germany.
Paris/Munich — After the escalation of the Ukraine conflict with the Russian attack on Ukraine, many European countries that depend on Russia for gas supplies are facing security of supply problems.
The Russian decision to throttle gas deliveries to Germany is now apparently also affecting France.
Russia gas: France no longer gets Russian gas - "interrupting the flow of Germany"
The country no longer receives Russian gas through pipelines.
As the French network operator GRTgaz informed in a press release, this has been the case since Wednesday
(June 15)
and is also due to the "interruption of the gas flow between France and Germany".
The Russian Gazprom group had throttled its deliveries to a number of EU countries in the past few days.
Gazprom reduced deliveries via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany by 60 percent, and volumes to Italy and Austria were also reduced.
Gas deliveries to Italy are to be cut by 50 percent.
Russia gas: French operator "vigilant" for winter - apparently no bottleneck in summer
As GRTgaz reported with a view to the coming winter, the storage tanks are 56 percent full.
Around 50 percent is normal at this time.
"GRTgaz remains vigilant for the coming winter and calls on utilities to fill national storage as much as possible," the press release said.
The grid operator also assured that there was no risk for France this summer as the increased deliveries from Spain would compensate for the interruption from Germany.
In addition, methane terminals would now have increased capacity.
(bb with AFP)
