Russia does not want to extend on their territory the infrastructure for large-scale supplies of Russian gas to Europe, and now, to protect their gas transmission system, prevents the increase of the access of Gazprom to the Opal gas pipeline – the Minister of energy of Russia Alexander Novak commented on December 21, Polish cases in the European Court in Luxembourg.
First, PGNiG, the Polish government then appealed the decision of the EC on the expansion of access to Gazprom’s pipeline to land in Germany, where gas from Nord Stream is transmitted to other audiences of the EU. In October, the EC confirmed that it agreed to Gazprom has increased its share of transported through OPAL raw material from 50%. almost 80 per cent. capacity of the pipeline (she is 36 billion m3 of gas per year).
the Russians did not take seriously the Polish claims. They tried to show that the Poles themselves shot in the foot. “For us, the transmission of gas through Poland is the most beneficial economically because it is the shortest route of Russian gas supplies to Western Europe. At the time we proposed the construction of additional gas pipeline Yamal-Europe, but Russia has refused (we are talking about the project ” Yamal-Europe II – ed.). So I did not understand what it is that we develop our infrastructure, when Russia did not want their increase,” – said Novak on TV Rosja24.
And Vladimir Cziżow representative of Russia to the EU said on 19 December that “the claim against Poland, Nord Stream 2 is the lawsuit against Russia”. But not to worry about it, because “Russia was late with the petition. The deadline has passed.”
Chairman of the Board “Gazprom” Alexey Miller assured that the extension of Nord Stream “passes in accordance with the schedule”, despite a number of negative external factors.
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