Gazprom.

Gas prices are approaching the peak last seen right after Russia attacked Ukraine. The fate of deliveries via Nord Stream 1 is uncertain, despite concessions to the disputed turbine. Gazprom is pursuing the Kremlin’s political goal of paralyzing the West with uncertainty. It can turn off the gas tap at any time anyway. Paradoxically, this […]

Former CEO of PGNiG Piotr Woźniak warns that filling the capacity of the Baltic Pipe can be time-consuming and costly, and according to him, everything was ready in 2019. „Perhaps the negotiations should start from the beginning, and it’s already May, so there are fewer than seven months left until December, when the Baltic Pipe […]

Ukrainian gas transit system operator GTSOU and gas provider Naftogaz ask German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the German Regulatory Authority, the Bundesnetzagentur (“BNetzA”), to revoke the existing legal exemptions for Nord Stream 1 (“NS1”). According to GTSOU and Naftogaz, the rationale for granting NS1 exemptions is no longer valid and […]

One of our proposals to Europe to increase the security of supply is to impose sanctions on Nord Stream 1. The gas should flow through Ukraine. It would increase Russian dependence on Ukraine. We can easily transit more with ample free capacities – states Ukrainian gas transmission system operator GTSOUA boss Serhiy Makogon to BiznesAlert.com.

It is said that Russians came up with the doctrine of de-escalation by escalation. It’s about using tactical nuclear weapons to conduct a limited attack on an area that is of little importance in order to discourage the opponent from fighting. This doctrine can be used to explain another phase of the game pursued by […]

Russia will stop supplying gas to Poland at 8 am Polish time on April 27, when the new contract period will start. This is another instance of blackmail, this time with the use of the ruble ultimatum, which proves that the plans to abandon Russian gas have had merit. This may be the beginning of […]

What goes in Poland on 10th of March.

Every crisis has a face. This one has the face of Russia’s Gazprom. Europe, including Poland, is in this way „invited to talk” about the next long-term contract – says the President of PGNiG Retail Henryk Mucha in an interview with BiznesAlert.pl.

Hydrogen diplomacy is a long-term solution, for the next 5-15 years. We need a solution to avoid an invasion now – states Yuriy Virenko, Naftogaz CEO, in an interview for BiznesAlert.com.

„It seems that Gazprom easily outsmarted our PGNiG, and Polish businesses and Polish consumers are paying the price,” says Radosław Sikorski from the Civic Coalition in an interview with BiznesAlert.pl.