rsted and Shell have informed GAZPROM Export that they will not pay the invoices in rubles – as requested by Moscow – the Russian company announced on Tuesday. Because no money had flowed for the month of April, deliveries would now be stopped. As reported by rsted, GAZPROM has informed the Danish group that gas deliveries will be stopped at 6 a.m. on Wednesday morning.
GAZPROM has maintained its demand that the gas must be paid for in rubles – but rsted is not contractually obliged to do so and will continue to pay in euros. The situation underscores the need for the EU to become independent of Russian gas through the accelerated expansion of renewable energies, said CEO Mads Nipper.
Supply bottlenecks are not expected in Denmark. According to rsted, Russia cannot directly cut off gas supplies to Denmark because there is no gas pipeline leading directly from the energy superpower to the country. It is therefore still possible for Denmark to obtain gas. However, this would then have to be acquired on a larger scale in the European gas market.
In response to sanctions over Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, Moscow decided that European countries must pay for energy in Russian currency. Otherwise the delivery stop was threatened. Only on Monday did the Dutch gas company GasTerra announce that GAZPROM would not deliver two billion cubic meters of gas to the Netherlands. Energy supplies had previously been stopped for Poland, Bulgaria and Finland.
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