MOSCOW, 9 Jul. The Austrian company OMV will continue to buy Russian gas under a long-term contract, despite the sanctions, its head Alfred Stern said in an interview with the Financial Times. will supply, we will continue to receive these volumes from him,” he said.
In addition, Stern warned, sanctions against Russian gas would lead to dire consequences. According to the head of OMV, «the elimination of certain sources» will affect the rise in prices.
At the same time, Stern added that his company does not plan to withdraw from the long-term contract with Gazprom, which was signed in 2018.
«We, as an industrial company, are obliged to guarantee the use of these sources, if they are permitted by law,» he said.
In March last year, Russia transferred payments for gas for unfriendly countries to rubles. Companies from some countries — Bulgaria, Poland, Finland, the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark — have refused to use this scheme, but OMV pays according to it. It was reported in April that Gazprom was supplying 100 percent of the contracted volumes of gas to Austria.