Stop valve at the compressor station. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 3Since the beginning of April, natural gas from Russia has stopped flowing to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, writes Jauns.lv, citing Uldis, head of the operator of the Latvian gas transmission system Conexus Baltic Grid (Conexus) Barissa. According to him, Moscow's statement about paying for blue fuel in rubles was a signal to the Baltic countries about the need to drastically reduce supplies, since they «can no longer be relied upon.»
" the question of building a second LNG terminal — the sooner the better", said Bariss.
At the same time, the head of Conexus Baltic Grid added that now the Inčukalns gas storage facility has «unusually a lot of gas for this period», therefore, he believes, there are no reasons for concern in the coming months.
Germany explained why the refusal to boycott gas from Russia was right. The day before, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said that Vilnius had completely refused Russian gas supplies. Earlier, the European Commission prepared an emergency plan to replace Russian gas with a consumption of 155 billion cubic meters per year. Among the measures are reducing the use of radiators and air conditioners (which will save about 14 billion cubic meters of gas), promoting biomethane, as well as wind and solar energy projects (another 25 billion cubic meters of savings). In March, President Vladimir Putin announced the transfer of gas payments to the EU countries and other states that have imposed sanctions against Russia, in rubles in order to abandon the use of dollars, euros and a number of other currencies in settlements. The head of state signed a corresponding decree and said that the Kremlin will consider non-fulfillment of obligations under gas contracts by unfriendly countries if they do not pay in rubles from April 1. The president made this decision after Western countries had frozen part of the Central Bank’s reserves as part of the restrictive measures against Moscow. gas