Gazprom to Increase Gasoline Provide to Slovakia through TurkStream

Slovakia will obtain a considerably bigger portion of Gazprom PJSC gasoline deliveries through Turkey and Hungary via the TurkStream pipeline, easing provide issues after flows through Ukraine had been lower off.

Beginning Tuesday, the nation will begin getting deliveries at a “a number of” of present flows, Vojtech Ferencz, chief govt officer of state utility Slovensky Plynarensky Priemysel AS, advised journalists in Bratislava. Ferencz declined to specify volumes.

The extra Russian gasoline will present some reduction to landlocked Slovakia, one of many international locations most impacted when Moscow halted deliveries to Europe through Ukraine firstly of the yr. Whereas Gazprom will nonetheless be sending the identical quantity of gasoline to Europe through Turkstream, a bigger share will now go to Slovakia simply because the essential season to stockpile for subsequent winter begins.

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Slovakia began receiving Russian gasoline via the TurkStream pipeline in February, Bloomberg Information reported. A lot of Europe turned away from Russian piped gasoline following Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. But a number of international locations – together with Slovakia – continued to depend on Gazprom’s flows through Ukraine and had been pressured to purchase dearer provides elsewhere.

There’s at present no clear time-line for a potential resumption of transit via Ukraine, Slovak economic system minister Denisa Sakova stated on the identical briefing. Sakova has been negotiating recurrently on the matter with the European Fee.

SPP’s commerce director Michal Lalik added that whereas repairs to Russia’s Sudzha gasoline metering station, broken in a drone assault earlier this month, could take a while, different interconnection factors are purposeful.