Several regions of Poland were left without gas due to sanctions against NOVATEK

According to the deputy HEAD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland, several dozen small settlements were left without gas due to sanctions against NOVATEK.The company provided supplies of liquefied natural gas there

Several municipalities in Poland were left without gas due to the suspension of supplies by the Russian company NOVATEK, Deputy Minister of the Interior of the Republic Pavel Shefernaker said, Dziennik.pl reports.

Dozens of communes were left without gas - this is how the smallest administrative-territorial unit is called in Poland.

“We have 2.5 thousand communes in Poland. There are problems [with gas] in a few dozen,” Schaefernaker admitted and said that the authorities are making efforts to eliminate interruptions and bring gas supply to the municipalities that have encountered problems.

A commune can be a separate village (rural gmina), a city (urban commune) or a city with adjacent villages (the so-called mixed commune).

The deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said that the cessation of gas supplies was due to the fact that in these areas the gas infrastructure belonged to NOVATEK, which also acted as a fuel supplier. The company made the decision to stop deliveries after it came under Polish sanctions .

According to Schaefernaker, since the decision to impose sanctions was made secretly, the heads of local administrations were not warned in advance about a possible cessation of supplies.

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Maciej Wonsik, another Deputy Minister of the Interior of Poland, said that Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki would soon make orders, on the basis of which Polish companies would take control of the gas networks in the communes, where Novatek's subsidiary Novatek Green Energy was supplying, and correct the situation.

According to the TVN24 channel, in particular, the communes of Mescisko and Zagurów in western Poland, as well as the city of Leba, which is located on the Baltic coast, were left without gas. Residents of these municipalities do not have heating and hot water; gas was supplied to these areas by a subsidiary of the Russian company Novatek Green Energy.

Novatek Green Energy has been operating in the European market since 2010. As follows from the explanation on the company's website, at the beginning of its activity, it specialized in the supply of liquefied hydrocarbon gas (LHG). Since 2017, the company has also been engaged in the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG), including the construction of gas filling stations and servicing customers in settlements gasified using LNG technology.

RBC sent a request to NOVATEK.

At the end of March, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on transferring payments for Russian gas into rubles. To do this, companies were offered to open a ruble account with Gazprombank. Putin also said that failure to comply with the decision of the Russian authorities would be considered a breach of contractual obligations on the part of buyers.

After that, Poland announced that it would not pay for gas from RUSSIA in rubles. The Government Commissioner for Strategic Energy Infrastructure, Piotr Naimsky, said that Warsaw is ready to cut off gas supplies from Russia and may even stop the flow of Russian gas to the country on its own.

On April 26, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland imposed sanctions against individuals and legal entities from Russia, including against Gazprom, NOVATEK and its subsidiaries.

On April 27, Gazprom completely suspended gas supplies to Poland via the Yamal-Europe pipeline. The press service of the company noted that as of the end of the working day on April 26, Gazprom EXPORT had not received payments for deliveries in rubles in April, as required by the decree of the President of Russia dated March 31. Gazprom also warned that in the event of unauthorized withdrawal of Russian gas from transit volumes to third countries, transit supplies would be reduced by this volume.

The PGNiG company, under the contract with which Gazprom supplied gas to Poland, considered Gazprom's actions a violation of the current agreement and announced that it intended to file a claim against the Russian company.

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