Russian Gas Supplies To Romania Still 30% Short – Transgaz

Deliveries of Russian gas to Romania were still 30% short of the planned volume after Russian gas group OAO Gazprom (GAZP.RS) said it would reduce supplies, the company handling the flow of gas said on Monday.

“The fall of 30% in gas deliveries is continuing,” the director of the gas transit company Transgaz, Ioan Rusu, told AFP.
Before this problem, Romania imported about 10 million cubic meters of gas a day from Russia. It consumes about 58 million cubic meters of gas a day.

The country has 2.2 billion cubic meters of gas in storage and the authorities have given assurances that households won’t be affected by the reduction of imported gas.

Meanwhile, many industrial users of gas are working at a reduced rate because orders have fallen owing to the economic slowdown.

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