Cuts to Russian gasoline? In actuality for now there are none, with reduction for the market (the place costs are barely falling, just under 46 euro/MWh on Tuesday nineteenth on the Ttf) and for the international locations that proceed to depend on provides from Moscow, even when solely to a residual extent, as within the case of Italy.
On Saturday the sixteenth, Gazprom interrupted provides to the Austrian OMV, one in all its historic prospects, in addition to one of the crucial “hungry” in current months. But the volumes despatched to Europe have remained steady: together with those who cross by the so-called Ukrainian route, used to serve Austria and attain, by the latter, our Peninsula.
Simply put, thus far there isn’t a proof to recommend a “new use of energy weapons” by Russia, nor an “attempt to blackmail Austria and Europe”, as had the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen hotly denounced.
The information speaks, public and freely accessible. Volumes of gasoline proceed to enter the Ukrainian community from Russia (on the Sudzha entry level, beneath Kiev’s navy management) as final week, round 42.4 million cubic meters per day.
Regular flows additionally at Velke Kapusany, the purpose the place they enter Slovakia, whereas at Baumgarten – the place they enter Austrian territory – they’ve truly dropped, however the discount has by no means exceeded 17% and on Tuesday nineteenth the “gap” closed lowered to 12% in comparison with the 290 GWh per day (29.6 million cubic meters) that arrived final week: fluctuations that operators interviewed by Il Sole 24 Ore contemplate “physiological”, even in intervals through which no vital occasions are recorded, such because the dispute between Omv and Gazprom.
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