Ukraine shuts off all gas supplies to Europe - Gazprom

[D-Mack]

Ukraine shuts off all gas supplies to Europe - Gazprom

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Gazprom cut off gas supplies to Ukraine on January 1 after talks with Kiev on a new deal for 2009 and debt repayments failed late on New Year's Eve. Naftogaz said on Tuesday that discussions would resume on Thursday.

According to Gazprom, Ukraine failed to deliver 65.3 million cubic meters of gas to consumers in Europe from January 1-4, and the Russian gas monopoly demanded that Kiev make up the shortfall.

The Gazprom official spokesman said on Wednesday that Ukraine had stolen another 21 million cubic meters of gas.

"In the past 24 hours under the pretext of technical requirements Naftogaz has stolen 21 million cubic meters more gas intended for delivery to Europe," Sergei Kupriyanov said on Vesti news TV channel. "In these conditions we have no choice but to reduce deliveries by 21 million cubic meters."

Russia has cut off all Europe's gas supplies, says Ukraine

Ukraine's gas company claims that Russia has cut off all gas supplies though the country, a move which would worsen a crisis which threatens to leave a number of European countries without heating in the midst of a winter chill.

It's getting interesting, they aren't called kleptocrats for nothing I guess...

[D-Mack]

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Austrian econ min says no gas rationing before Mon

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The head of Austrian energy regulator E-Control said at the same news conference that he did not expect any Russian gas supplies in the next few days. (Reporting by Sylvia Westall, writing by Boris Groendahl)

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Seems US dollar positive, but what do I know.

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Man the timing of this is unbelievable.

Go to Weather Underground and you will see how cold it is in Western/Eastern Europe.

What a time to be playing pipeline games :confused:

[D-Mack]

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Wrap: EU loses trust with no end in sight to Russia-Ukraine gas spat
22:04 | 14/ 01/ 2009




MOSCOW, January 14 (RIA Novosti) - With EU countries left without Russian gas supplies for more than a week and no sign of an end to the deadlock between Kiev and Moscow, Europe questioned on Wednesday the credibility of Russia and Ukraine as reliable gas suppliers.

Moscow and Kiev failed to reach an agreement on a new gas contract for 2009 on December 31, which led to Russian energy giant Gazprom suspending supplies to Ukraine on January 1. Gazprom cut off supplies to Europe a week later saying Ukraine was stealing gas intended for EU consumers.

Following mediation by the EU the two sides agreed to resume supplies, however a test delivery failed on Tuesday and Russian gas via Ukraine has so far failed to reach the EU, leading Moscow to accuse Kiev of blocking the gas deliveries.

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it looks like this one will be with us for quite a time