The Russian gas giant Gazprom announced on Tuesday the interruption from this Wednesday of gas deliveries to several European customers – whose list is growing – having refused to pay in rubles.
In response to the sanctions imposed by the European Union, Vladimir Putin has indeed demanded that buyers of Russian gas from “unfriendly” countries pay in rubles from accounts in Russia or risk being deprived of supply, despite contracts. providing for payments in euros or dollars.
Gazprom thus announced on Tuesday morning that it had “completely ceased its gas deliveries to the company GasTerra BV (Netherlands) due to non-payment in rubles”. In the evening, Gazprom added that deliveries to Ørsted and Shell Energy Export would be interrupted from Wednesday for the same reason.
Russia had already cut off gas for the same reason to Finland, Bulgaria and Poland. The Dutch depend on Russia for around 15% of their gas supplies, or some six billion cubic meters a year. In Denmark, gas represents 18% of the energy consumed each year, three quarters coming from national production.
Source: 20minutes
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