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Gazprom again refused to book Yamal-Europe facilities due to lack of demand

During the additional section of the auction, Gazprom again did not book the capacity of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline for Monday, December 27, RIA Novosti reports, citing data from the GSA Platform.

Gazprom did not book Yamal-Europe's capacity for December in its entirety, using only daily booking opportunities - while in the first half of December the company was booking 31.4 million cubic meters per day out of the available 89.1 million cubic meters.

Nevertheless, starting from December 17, Gazprom began to gradually reduce the volume of bookings.

Earlier it became known that Gazprom had not booked Yamal-Europe's capacities for gas transit for a week.

As of December 17, the company bought out 27 million cubic meters. meters of gas, and on December 20 - 3.8 million of the available 89.1 million cubic meters. m. On Thursday, December 23, the offer at the additional session remained unclaimed. A similar situation persisted the next day.

On the eve of the official representative of the company Sergei Kupriyanov said that all accusations against "Gazprom" in the insufficient volumes of gas supplies to the European market are groundless. According to him, Gazprom is ready to supply additional volumes of gas within the framework of existing long-term contracts. At the same time, the price of these supplies is lower than the spot prices, Kupriyanov emphasized.

Gazprom again refused to book Yamal-Europe facilities due to lack of demand