Extra US liquefied fuel flows to Slovakia

The fuel will journey from the terminals within the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda via Poland, from the place it should go to the brand new switch station Výrava on the border between Slovakia and Poland, the web site of the Slovak newspaper Hospodárske noviny mentioned .

“Our contract represents a big improve in pure fuel provide amounting to nearly 30 p.c of our clients’ present consumption,” he mentioned the brand new contract signed by the top of the ZSE board, Juraj Bayer, with the truth that fuel will begin flowing this manner subsequent yr. The corporate, which is 51 p.c owned by the Slovak state and 49 p.c by E.ON, is the second largest provider of pure fuel in Slovakia.

Slovakia is thus lowering its dependence on Russian fuel, which till now has been depending on pipeline provides from the east. Nevertheless, the contract between Kyiv and Moscow on the transit of Russian fuel via Russian territory expires on the finish of this yr and won’t be prolonged.

In line with present EU knowledge, from the summer season of 2022, the share of pure fuel imports from Russia to Slovakia fell final yr from the unique 85 p.c to round 50 p.c, a Slovak web site mentioned this week . Finreport.sk.

Till now, solely the wholly state-owned concern Slovenský plynárenský průmysl (SPP) imported LNG to Slovakia, which took the primary supply of American liquefied fuel from the Corpus Christi terminal there in Texas already within the spring of 2022 – just some months after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Nevertheless, this fuel traveled via the southern route via the airport on the Croatian island of Krk.