The Ukrainian gas operator has alleged “force majeure” to temporarily stop the transit of a third of the volumes that passed through Sojranivka, under Russian control, and plans to divert it through Sudzha, under the control of kyiv; Russia rules it out as “technically impossible.”
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The Russian gas concern Gazprom sees no reason to change the gas supply route to Europe through Ukraine after the operator of the gas transmission network of Ukraine (GTSOU) announced on Tuesday that it looked forced to temporarily interrupt the transit of a third of the gas transporting from Russia to Europe by “force majeure”.
The Ukrainian operator states that “the actions of the occupants led to the interruption of gas transit through the Sojranivka connection point.” A “cause of force majeure” that makes it impossible to continue transporting gas through that measurement point, on the border with Russia, and the Novopskov compression station, both located in the eastern Ukrainian province of Lugansk and in territory controlled by Moscow forces.
the spokesman for the russian companySergei Kuprianov, however, has written on Telegram that “Gazprom has not received confirmations of force majeure and sees no impediments to the continuity of the work”.
Until now, 32.6 million cubic meters of gas per day passed through the Sojranivka station, which is one third of the total that Ukraine transports to Europe, according to the GTSOU.
Several of the operator’s facilities are located in territories controlled by Russia and Russia does not have operational or technological control over them, the statement added. Under the terms of the transit contract with Russia’s Gazprom, these events constitute “force majeure circumstances that make it impossible to fulfill the obligations” described in it, the company justified.
Gazprom assures that, until now, Ukrainian specialists have been working regularly in Sojranivka and nothing prevents them from continuing the work.
However, the GTSOU has indicated that temporarily and in order to continue supplying gas to Europe in the planned volume, “there is a possibility” of transferring the volume of gas in question from the Sojranivka interconnection point to that of Sudzha (under Ukrainian control and through which 77 million cubic meters pass daily), further north. Gazprom rules out that possibility as “technically impossible.”
Source: Eitb
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