“In the first half of 2023, two major things happened. One of them is that we did not import even a cubic meter of gas from Russia to the Czech Republic,” announced Síkela at the press conference.
According to him, the second reason is that reservoirs in the Czech Republic remain filled at a record level.
“To date, they are at more than 88 percent occupancy,” he said. According to him, the reservoirs were 75 percent full at this time last year and only 42 percent in 2021.
There are two main reasons for this development. First, a significant increase in LNG supplies, which was also contributed to by the stake in the LNG terminal in the Dutch Eemshaven, which we secured last year. And secondly, a reduction in gas consumption, which compensates for the decrease in the total volume of gas supplied to Germany. pic.twitter.com/LStjbzgoCv
— Jozef Síkela (@JozefSikela) July 19, 2023
According to the minister, all gas to the Czech Republic flows through Germany. “Gas from Russia replaces LNG gas from Belgium and Holland and gas from Norway,” he listed.
According to Síkela, the total volume of imported gas has decreased. “I want to thank the Czechs for taking a very responsible approach to gas consumption. The reduction in consumption has a decisive effect on the fact that we are still doing very well without gas supplies from Russia,” he praised at the press conference.
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