Eni, Gazprom working to resolve gas flow halt
Adding to the European gas market pressure, Gazprom said on Monday that it did not plan to hold spot gas sales this week. photo: file
Italy’s Eni said it would not receive any of the gas it had requested from Russia’s Gazprom for delivery on Saturday, but the firms said they were working to fix this.
Russian gas supplies through the Tarvisio entry point will be at zero for October 1, Eni, the biggest importer of Russian gas in Italy, said in a statement on its website.
Moscow and several European countries, including Germany, have been at loggerheads over the supply of natural gas from Russia since the country’s invasion of Ukraine in February.
Tensions soared this week after leaks in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, linking Russia and Germany, spewed tonnes of methane into the Baltic Sea, in what the UN believes could be the largest leak of the climate-damaging gas ever recorded.
On Saturday, the operator of Nord Stream 2 said gas had finally stopped leaking out, five days after the initial rupture, which both Russia and the West blamed on sabotage. The European Union says Moscow is using the flow of gas needed for energy in the region as an economic weapon.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 2nd, 2022.
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