Hamburg. After the halt in supplies of Russian gas producer Gazprom to
Ukraine and the growing concern about possible repercussions in
Germany. Finally, gas with 22 percent of total energy consumption by
petroleum and coal, the third largest energy source in this country.
And Russia has a 35 percent share of Germany's total gas volume of the
largest importer. Another 24 percent come from Norway, 19 from the
Netherlands and six from Denmark and Great Britain. Only 16 percent of
the required amount of gas can be promoted within the country.
Five pipelines that pass through Ukraine, two are directly determined
for the country and now from Russia have been taken from the grid. The
remaining three are still in operation and provide Western Europe. The
Ukraine yesterday dismissed the allegation, the two-country gas now
illegal in the three still working on pipelines. The largest German
importer of Russian natural gas, Wintershall, told however, that the
volumes which einträfen in the Federal Republic, would have been
significantly reduced. This was also confirmed by the Ruhrgas AG.
"The supply of homes and the large consumers of natural gas is not at
risk," Wintershall spokesman Nicholas said the new evening paper.
"Most of our non-Russian gas comes via pipelines that pass through
Ukraine, but via the Yamal pipeline, which runs through Belarus and
Poland. And that is not affected," said New. Furthermore, Wintershall
have several suppliers and refer a lot of gas from the North Sea. "And
these contracts are so flexible that we can increase the quantities."
Security of supply would be ensured by the 43 German underground gas
storage. Can be even if all delivery routes should fail at once,
experts assume that the memory, the amounts of activated via a button
on your computer and run into the gas network, the supply could save
approximately 70 days. This was confirmed by Heino Elfert, editor of
industry journal "Energy Information Service" (EID). "There is no
cause for panic," he told the Evening Gazette and also pointed to the
flexible delivery
Also, the Hamburg-based supplier E.on Hanse Quickborn are you left.
"We have four suppliers and could fail if ever one should resort to
the other three," said spokeswoman Esther Seemann the evening paper.
The company also offers three fully stocked store in Brook Riding in
Hamburg, Mecklenburg Kraak and Ronne, near Kiel. "Even if all supplies
failed to materialize, we could provide our customers two months,"
said Sailor.
The Netherlands' largest gas producer Gasunie assured that he could
provide additional supplies Germany. However, the price could increase
if the supply exceeded the contractual framework, said a company
spokesman. The Federation of German Industries (BDI) said that prices
could tighten during the gas dispute. Example, if Ukraine would
require a return to Russian supply stop future higher transit fees.
"There will be no price jump," said Wolf pluge however, chief
executive of the Federal Association of German Gas and Water. Even so,
not because the gas price in Germany is coupled with a six-month delay
of the light fuel oil.
