Gazprom: gas supplied in full, bypassing damaged Russian export pipeline
A local unit of the Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday that gas was being supplied to customers in full via parallel pipelines following a fatal explosion in a section of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline, Reuters reports.
The blast, near Kalinino, around 150 km (90 miles) west of the Volga city of Kazan in central Russia, killed three people and threatened to disrupt some of the limited volume of Russian gas that is still reaching Europe despite the economic fallout from Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine. The head of Moldovagaz, Vadim Ceban, told Radio Moldova that at this time the Republic of Moldova is not affected by the explosion of the gas pipeline and there is no risk of disconnections. And Romania communicated that it was not affected by the explosion, reports Agerpres. Meanwhile, according to the Russian portal TASS, the price of gas in Europe jumped to almost 1,260 dollars per 1,000 cubic meters after the explosion at the Urengoy - Pomary - Uzhgorod gas pipeline in Chuvashia. The explosion on the main pipeline occurred a day after the EU agreed on a price cap for Russian gas.
