Russia’s Gazprom to deliver half Italy’s requested gas volumes
Russia’s Russia’s Russia’s Russia’s Russia’s Russia’s Russia’s Gazprom will deliver only half of the gas volumes Eni requested for Friday, a spokesperson for the Italian energy company told Montel.
Gazprom has been cutting gas deliveries to Italy since Wednesday, when Russian gas flows were curbed by 15% and they amounted to 65%, or 32mcm, of the total volume requested by Eni on Thursday.
Problems at the Portovaya compressor station, which feeds gas flows from Russia to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, were blamed for the cuts.
Italy, which is heavily reliant on Russia for its gas imports, has been trying to diversify its supplies after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Apart from Italy, Germany has seen reduced gas flows from Russia via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline this week.
Meanwhile, Russia recently suspended gas supplies to Poland, Bulgaria, Finland and Denmark for not complying with Moscow’s demand for “unfriendly countries” to use a new payment method involving rubles. This demand came after Russia’s currency was hit by Western sanctions.
