And I lost Russia Almost all of its European customers are amid attempts by the European Union to reduce dependence on Moscow and bombings targeting two Nord Stream pipelines to pump gas to Germany in 2022. Before launching the war on Ukraine, Russia was the largest supplier of natural gas to Europe.
Vienna said on Friday that Moscow had informed it of cutting off gas supplies as of Saturday, following the issuance of an arbitration decision in favor of the company…OMV), the largest energy supplier in Austria, due to Gazprom not fulfilling its supplies to the Austrian company’s unit in Germany.
The Austrian Energy Regulatory Authority (E-Control) said today that Gazprom’s supplies to OMV stopped at 0500 GMT.
Gazprom said it would send 42.4 million cubic meters of gas to Europe via Ukraine today, the same level that was delivered yesterday, Friday.
OMV usually receives about 40 percent of Russian gas flows through Ukraine, or about 17 million cubic meters per day.
Russia sent about 15 billion cubic meters of gas through Ukraine in 2023, or only about eight percent of the peak of Russian gas flows to Europe via various routes in 2018 and 2019, according to data collected by Reuters.
According to the International Energy Agency, 65 percent of the gas supplies received by Austria and its neighbors Hungary and Slovakia passed through Ukraine in 2023.
