German utilities get less Russia gas, tap reserves | Reuters
"Gazprom is sending around a third less today, with the bulk of volumes for E.ON Ruhrgas shipped via the Czech-German border point Waidhaus," E.ON's Essen-based subsidiary said in a statement.On Thursday, E.ON had said supplies were still running at normal levels. It reiterated in the statement that storage levels at its subsidiary EGS were at 74 percent, which is high for the time of year."Our customers in Germany are being served without any limitations," E.ON said.A spokeswoman for RWE said: "We are receiving around 30 percent less gas from Russia than normal, due to the big freeze in Eastern Europe."
"Gazprom is sending around a third less today, with the bulk of volumes for E.ON Ruhrgas shipped via the Czech-German border point Waidhaus," E.ON's Essen-based subsidiary said in a statement.
On Thursday, E.ON had said supplies were still running at normal levels. It reiterated in the statement that storage levels at its subsidiary EGS were at 74 percent, which is high for the time of year.
"Our customers in Germany are being served without any limitations," E.ON said.
A spokeswoman for RWE said: "We are receiving around 30 percent less gas from Russia than normal, due to the big freeze in Eastern Europe."
Gazprom on Friday insisted it was fulfilling all of its contracts. "Now these obligations are being carried out, but the customers are asking for larger volumes than we are obliged to supply to them," the head of pricing at Gazprom Export Sergei Komlev was quoted as saying.
OAO Gazprom is "perplexed" by reports of a decline in Russian natural-gas supplies to Europe, said Deputy Chief Executive Officer Alexander Medvedev, adding Ukraine is taking more fuel than contracted during a cold snap. Gazprom, Russia's gas exporter, is boosting gas supplies to the "maximum" to Europe, Ukraine and Belarus as the freezing weather raises demand, Medvedev said today in an e-mailed statement, after Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic reported imports had fallen. "Amid the freezing winter in Russia and Europe, our company has boosted gas supplies to the maximum," Medvedev said. "Offtake of gas from European storage has quadrupled in the past week."
Gazprom, Russia's gas exporter, is boosting gas supplies to the "maximum" to Europe, Ukraine and Belarus as the freezing weather raises demand, Medvedev said today in an e-mailed statement, after Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic reported imports had fallen.
"Amid the freezing winter in Russia and Europe, our company has boosted gas supplies to the maximum," Medvedev said. "Offtake of gas from European storage has quadrupled in the past week."
I find it fascinating that there can be so much condusion on these issues. Some technical complexity, vested and or criminal interests and confused reporting, and no one who hasn't got a Ph.d. in Russo-Ukrainian gas relations get what's actually happening. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
