Gas transit has been restricted in series by Hungary’s main leadership so far, but the government has also changed
“Gazprom reduced transit through Ukraine three times in 2021. From 186 million cubic meters per day to 124 million cubic meters on 1 January. Transit was cut to 109 million cubic meters from 1 September. On 1 October, gas supplies to Hungary from Turkey and Bulgaria began. “The graph shows that Gazprom often does not select the already paid transit capacity, and not only in Ukraine, but also in other countries, such as Slovakia,” Makogon wrote. on Facebook is Ukrinform according to.
According to the Ukrainian Minister of Energy, the statements of the Russian leadership about the increase of transit through Ukraine in 2021 are manipulative. “It should be noted that the current contract does not provide for 40 reliable cubic meters of annual delivery, but for 109 million cubic meters per day. Now physically more less is delivered,” Makogon said.
He stressed that, given the significant gas shortages in European gas storage facilities and the higher prices of natural gas, Gazprom’s behavior deserves special attention from Europe. He recalled that Ukraine is ready to supply additional quantities of gas in excess of the capacity of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline.
Gazprom in September 2021 for the guaranteed additional transit capacity only 4 different reservations only down, which led to a decrease in Russian gas transit through Ukraine. In total, in September 2021, the transit of natural gas to European countries through the Ukrainian gas transmission system amounted to 3.257 percent cubic meters.
This natural gas transit via Hungary to Hungary stopped on October 1, 2021.
On October 1, it started commercial traffic, connecting Serbia and Hungary on a new natural gas pipeline, through which the annual transport of 8.5 billion m3 of natural gas can be changed. The construction works, which have been going on for almost a year, were successfully followed in September by their capacity, which market participants were able to contract on the pipeline for the 2021–2022 gas year from October to October. At the annual auction, FGSZ had already sold almost 32% of the offered uninterruptible capacity, and further commitments were expected at subsequent short-term, annual auctions – how to FGSZ also reported.
The construction of the Serbian part of Turkish Stream was announced in December 2019 as we wrote then: the construction of the gas pipeline carrying Russian gas was a priority but a secret desire of the Hungarian government, as it became the little brother of the fallen South Stream. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called the construction of the pipeline one of the most important projects of the current decade in this year’s annual economic assessment.