Gas at $ 540: Russia Promotes Nord Stream 2 at the Price of Its Reputation

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Incredibly, the European premium energy market, for which the United States and Russia are fighting, has suddenly turned into an acutely scarce market. Gas prices in the EU have reached the level of $ 540 per thousand cubic meters. The main "bad guy" has already been appointed "Gazprom", which has drastically reduced the volume of pumping "blue fuel", leaving the European underground storage facilities filled not even by half, but by a third, on the eve of the start of the heating season. A certain relationship is undoubtedly traced, but is it only in the actions of the Russian state corporation that matters?

The situation in the European Union is indeed non-trivial. It is all the more surprising that German Chancellor Angela Merkel does not bang her fist on the table, demanding that the Kremlin "step on the gas". Let's figure it out.



His Majesty Gazprom


There is a strong impression that Moscow has decided to take revenge to the fullest for all the humiliations and obstacles put up by European partners to Gazprom in its attempt to build alternative pipelines bypassing Ukraine. Here one can recall the "feint" of Brussels with the transfer of the norms of the Third Energy Package to offshore gas pipelines, and the three-year red tape with the issuance of a permit for the construction of Nord Stream-2, arranged by Denmark, and "kiddocs" by a Swiss contractor, and a series of openly biased legal proceedings. decisions made in favor of Kiev. But now a lot has changed.

At firstDespite active opposition from the United States, Gazprom was able to complete the construction of the remaining subsea section of the pipeline on its own. Now the matter has become a matter of legal procedures.

SecondlyBerlin and Washington have reached an agreement between themselves that the American authorities will not interfere with the further operation of the Russian-German gas pipeline, albeit with certain conditions unpleasant for Moscow.

Thirdly, due to the combination of the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic and abnormal weather conditions, conditions on the global energy market have developed extremely unfavorable for Europe: the prices of LNG in Asia have jumped so much that all producers of liquefied natural gas chose to send their tankers there. For the EU, this would not be a problem if Gazprom continued to play the role of a “good guy”, ready to lend a shoulder at any moment. But he didn't.

Instead, the Russian state corporation began to intensively sell the existing gas reserves in its European UGS facilities, and reduced the supply of new volumes, demonstratively refusing to reserve additional volumes through the Ukrainian GTS and from booking transit capacities of the Yamal-Europe pipeline. The situation was aggravated by an accident at the Urengoy plant for the preparation of condensate for transportation in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District of the Russian Federation. The result was not slow to show itself. German underground gas storage facilities are half full, Austrian ones - generally a third. And this is when the heating season is approaching, and autumn is already felt in the gusts of cool wind. Gas prices jumped to $ 540 per thousand cubic meters. It is not difficult to guess what Gazprom is trying to achieve. The well-known German edition Handelsblatt came to the following conclusion:

Russia deliberately restricts gas supplies to Europe. By artificially creating a deficit, Gazprom provides its Nord Stream 2 pipeline project with a good starting position.

In general, the way it is. The Europeans perfectly understand the signal sent from Moscow, which makes it clear that they will increase gas pumping only through both Nord Streams, the first and the second. But there are some legal problems. The constructed Nord Stream 2 still needs to be certified somehow in order for it to start working, and Gazprom is also seeking to withdraw its subsidiary company, the pipeline operator, from the EU's Third Energy Package. There are forecasts that the solution of such procedures, even if successful, may drag on until at least February 2022. Neither Moscow nor Berlin are ready to wait so long. Especially in Berlin.

Recall that at the end of September 2021, parliamentary elections will be held in Germany, after which Chancellor Angela Merkel is to leave her post. For her, who has spent so many years promoting the Nord Stream 2 project, its early completion would be a bright final point in political career. Perhaps this explains why the FRG, left with half-empty UGS facilities, is not yet trying to exert powerful political pressure on Moscow in order for Gazprom to increase gas pumping. It is also possible that after the resignation we will be able to see Frau Merkel on the board of directors of some Russian state corporation.

Summing up, we can conclude that Gazprom went for broke, leaving Europe without gas. The chances that he will succeed in getting Nord Stream 2 to start operating are quite high under the current conditions. Abnormally high gas prices will allow the domestic monopolist to quickly recoup its last year's financial losses. However, it should be borne in mind that Brussels may later recall all this to Moscow, and Washington will play this political card, pointing out that Gazprom is not a very reliable supplier and uses its pipelines as an “energy weapon”. The respected German edition DW points out such risks.
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  1. +3
    7 August 2021 12: 55
    I wonder if this is a game of poker rules, then how can you bluff against someone with a stronger card and a bigger pot? And if you also exclude dollars from the calculations and spend them in rubles? Then - the end of the dollar? Is this what to be afraid of in a puddle?
  2. +25
    7 August 2021 13: 01
    Gazprom is not a very reliable supplier

    Again, an article about bad GasProm ... Until today (more than 40 years ago) Gazprom has been the most reliable gas supplier to Europe. You can't buy a reputation in a day. As of today, GazProm accurately fulfills all contractual deliveries.
    The article does not indicate why the States or Qatar are in no hurry to sell their "freedom molecules" on the European market. Moreover, LNG terminals in Europe are idle.
    The topic is old and some provisions will have to be updated. Long-term contracts guaranteed gas supply. Long-term contracts, the take-or-pay principle and pegging to the oil basket are an invention of Europe. But now, when European deposits are depleted, it suddenly became clear that these are "non-market mechanisms." The EU noted that Gazprom imposed European countries a price pegged to oil. ”This is the height of arrogance.
    GazProm has paid colossal fines (billions of dollars). And he took into account that Europe - unreliable customer. The Stockholm Arbitration has clearly shown that reputation of Europe, as a buyer of gas, fell below the baseboard. Now the gas price is being formed at the Dutch hub. This is much higher than the oil pegged price. It has always been said that the price of spot markets is a speculator's paradise. But for the stable operation of the industry, predictability and certain prices are needed for a long period. That is why the pegging to oil was with a lag of 3 to 6 months.
    Now Germany is the winner. Germany has never sued Gazprom or disputed gas prices. And at the moment he is receiving it at a price of $ 230-240. After the completion of JV-2, it will receive maximum gas volumes at this price (pegged to oil) and resell gas to European consumers at spot prices. Two times higher.
    Therefore, Merkel is silent. German industrialists will cast a gold monument to her. And only their surplus gas will be sold to Europe. Who is in the black? Germany (in the first place), GazProm (in the second place). Who is in the red? Small mongrels of Europe who can't see beyond their noses.
    After the launch of the Altai gas pipeline, everything will be very bad for Europe. This gas pipeline will supply China from the Yamal fields. And they are now the base for the European direction. Without Altai, it is impossible to redirect gas from Yamal to China. So, if the EU continues its madness, then GazProm will simply switch to spot trading without a GUARANTEE of gas supplies to Europe. All the same, long-term contracts are ending, and no one will conclude new ones without a resource base. Let them buy on spot markets at speculative prices.
    1. -8
      7 August 2021 14: 43
      Well done! I would add on my own ... Not only to the board of directors of the state corporation, but also as a holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland ... laughing All the same, Komsomol youth.
    2. 123
      +6
      7 August 2021 15: 46
      Again, an article about bad GasProm ...

      Great comment, all to the point. good There is practically nothing to add. Not in the eyebrow, but in the eye, and with a log. hi
      The Europeans fought for what they needed laughing
    3. -18
      7 August 2021 20: 03
      You do not want to understand that the terms are always dictated by the buyer. The seller can only try to dictate under a monopoly. In general, the gas issue is a temporary phenomenon. In Germany today, 50% of energy is produced from renewable sources. Well, another 5 or 10 years and that's it, sales of gas, as well as oil, will fall.
      by 60-80%. Energy carriers have no long-term prospects. 20 years were killed in vain, there is no new economy, and the resource one, has ordered to live a long time.
      Do you know how much gas China (supposedly your ally) bought from Russia in a year? 4 billion cubic meters. And Europe? More than 150 billion. And you are smart enough to blackmail Europe ?! These iridescent pictures make one smile for the FRG. Compare energy revenues in Russia and Germany. Germany will not even earn money for a gold monument.
      And Russia will start starving.
      1. +9
        7 August 2021 20: 22
        I looked at your comments. There is no specifics. In addition to the figure of 4 billion cubic meters. Deliveries to China are not only about Gazprom. This is NOVATEK.
        But that's not the point. The bottom line is that the buyer doesn't dictate anything. Go to the bazaar and try to dictate the price of the product to the seller. Buy a lot?
        The problem is that the buyer has shown himself to be inadequate. And nothing will be sold to such a person.
        And about gas consumption. Bloomberg CATEGORALLY DOES NOT AGREE with you. Europe needs gas, and it is not. Not physically. Europe was diligently moving towards the rejection of long-term guaranteed supplies. Now the leftovers will be bought from the Asian market. What is the essence of the Power of Siberia-2 (Altai)? If Europe begins to dictate its terms (of course, the buyer), then all the gas will go to Asia. Unlike you, European gas companies are well aware of this.
        You do not understand the essence of what is happening. The buyer himself refused the goods. Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria. 5-6 more European countries are next in line. Germany will become Europe's gas hub. It's unavoidable.
        PS Cherry on the cake. With a price in Holland of $ 500 per thousand cubic meters, do not you know how much Ukraine will pay? I can tell you. The numbers are not mine and are taken from oil and gas magazines. It is expected that $ 700 for Ukraine is an acceptable price.
      2. +5
        8 August 2021 15: 19
        Quote: alexander kotler
        In Germany today, 50% of energy is produced from renewable sources.

        Yes, you are a friend - you still believe in Santa Claus.
      3. +2
        9 August 2021 08: 47
        Have you been on the market for a long time, businessman ?! Go and try your price for potatoes on the traders there, let's see what they tell you.
  3. +7
    7 August 2021 14: 42
    Europe give up gas to save mice. Where are you green?
  4. +9
    7 August 2021 14: 44
    To be honest, I don’t understand why Europeans are needed at all. Why indulge them with oil and gas. Let them already scatter around the world, like Ukrainians and tribals ...
    1. -18
      7 August 2021 19: 48
      I am amazed at your stupidity. The Europeans do not need you, you need Europe. Come on, stop pampering Europe with gas and oil, what will happen to it? NOTHING! There are dozens of other energy sellers out there who will be happy to sell and make money. What will happen to Russia? Put your teeth on the shelf. Do you even understand that ?!
      Do you know that over 20 years, 10 million have fled from Russia. Yes, not simple, but smart and educated.
      They created Google, Feuisbuk, Votsap, and are driving progress.
      And there are people like you.
      1. +7
        7 August 2021 19: 52
        Nobody is selling them anything anymore. Everything goes to Southeast Asia, there are now smart and solvent consumers. And Europe has become the anus of Eurasia.
      2. +5
        8 August 2021 14: 54
        Quote: alexander kotler
        There are dozens of other energy sellers out there who will be happy to sell and make money.

        Where? Where are these nice people ready to supply Geyropa with gas for cheap? In Asia? Do you know why? LNG is a very mobile thing, and the tanker sails where the price is higher. And the price is dictated not by the buyer, but by the demand, if somewhere in the world the demand is higher, then Geyropa will be in an idle suction.
        Oops.
        Think before you write. Do not dishonor the Jews.
      3. +2
        9 August 2021 08: 50
        We have already heard these tales for the American LNG, well, where is he ?! Why is Europe not running into them, they said that they would flood the whole of Europe up to their ears, for the place of the northern stream ?!
      4. 0
        16 August 2021 04: 23
        Thousand 300-500 no more. Mostly nerus, Jews of different nationalities, reindeer breeders from Southeast Asia, and so on. Russian imperial people, foreign languages, like the Anglo-Saxons and Chinese cannot learn
  5. +11
    7 August 2021 15: 22
    Those who wanted to have a white reputation before the West ruled under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, not giving a damn about the interests of the country and the people: rob whatever you want, just give us a high mark in achieving their democratic values. Today's Democrats and Liberals want everything back. Unfortunately for them, there appeared those who thought about the interests of the country, and not about the painted image in the West.
    1. -19
      7 August 2021 19: 38
      Don't make people laugh, my friend! No one has ever been interested in the interests of the people (a country cannot have its own interests, the interests of the people, these are the interests of the country). The way Russia is behaving on the gas issue runs counter to your interests. It is in your interests to sell gas, and the government is doing everything to stop dealing with Russia. This is how a monopolist can behave and dictate conditions. Despite the fact that there is a lot of gas in the world, this is how they behave.
      1. +4
        8 August 2021 15: 01
        Quote: alexander kotler
        It is in your interests to sell gas, and the government does everything,

        It's funny
        The stray Jew tells us what's in our best interest.
        Aren't you taking on a lot? Friend!
  6. +10
    7 August 2021 15: 30
    It's not a pity to part with the reputation of being an idiot and terpily! ...
    ...
  7. -9
    7 August 2021 15: 35
    Well, probably, there is some long-lasting reason in everything that is happening .. although, maybe, the blue-eyed leadership is just stupid and petty? after all, rich is not at all a synonym for smart, especially in Russia)
    1. +3
      8 August 2021 15: 04
      You should be in Miller's place.
      Generous, smart and sharp - you are ours.
  8. +6
    7 August 2021 15: 58
    It's time for Geyrope to look at the "most reliable" supplier of STGA LNG! Well, walk around the bazaar. There is a choice !!!
  9. +4
    7 August 2021 18: 21
    There is nothing else to expect from the author. The conductor of the Ekho Moskvy policy, naturally, will interpret any action of Russia in a light favorable to Khodorkovsky.
  10. -19
    7 August 2021 19: 31
    What Russia is doing is not only shortsighted, but also stupid. Today, Russia had to prove to the West its reliability as a partner. She does exactly the opposite, confirming the arguments of the opponents of the SP-2. What will happen next? Will be bad. Merkel is leaving, the motives of her support for the gas pipeline are unknown to me, but whatever they may be, she is a leaving nature. The new government will undoubtedly be much more critical of Russia's actions, and if the Greens join the coalition, then I guarantee you that the SP-2 project will die completely. Moreover, all existing contracts with Russia will be reviewed, a large number of gas terminals have been built and Europe will switch to liquefied gas. Russia does not want to understand simple things. Resources, and gas in particular, become a commodity only when there is a buyer. Europe, the largest buyer of Russian gas, and what are you doing with this buyer? You do everything so that he stops cooperating with you. Nothing will happen to Europe, there is more than enough gas on the market. Today, Europe will declare an embargo on Russian energy resources, tomorrow there will be a queue of sellers ready to offer any conditions.
    Where did you get this arrogance and "greatness" that never existed and does not exist. You jump to the point that everyone spits and turns away from you. And you will be left alone with your resources and "greatness".
    1. +4
      7 August 2021 20: 56
      You liberals cannot understand the logic of Gazprom !!!
    2. +5
      7 August 2021 20: 59
      Tribalts buy gas from Novatek! GazProm will build a gas liquefaction plant in Len. area !? And LNG is not tied to a pipe, where it is more profitable to sell there and gas carriers will go!
    3. +8
      8 August 2021 06: 26
      Alexander, I don't want to answer your nonsense here and above - by God, because the level of the kindergarten :) The logic is lame, on the face of the contradiction to the facts - even the well-known. It is felt that your education is not economic and you do not own the topic. I understand that you are one of those emigrants who, having left Russia, hate her. You have to adapt abroad, break yourself every day, but you believe - or rather, you are trying to convince yourself - that the move was not in vain and everything will work out. Understand, if it didn't work out in your home country, then it's not the country that matters, but you. Do not hate Russia because of personal failures.
    4. +5
      8 August 2021 15: 12
      Quote: alexander kotler
      Russia had to prove

      Why ... Russia owes something to someone?

      Quote: alexander kotler
      I guarantee you that the SP-2 project will die completely

      Maybe put all your savings (if you have them, otherwise we know you are hicks).

      Quote: alexander kotler
      And you will be left alone with your resources and "greatness".

      The greats are always alone, because at the top there is no one but us, everyone else is below. (joke)
    5. +3
      9 August 2021 01: 36
      Prove? Should? After several decades of impeccable supplies, this sounds like rudeness. I would write right away, I must prove that she is not hunchbacked. Why bustle then.
  11. +6
    7 August 2021 20: 54
    The beginning of the article is complete nonsense !!! How is the US fighting for the European market ??? Shipping LNG to Asia where prices are higher ?! The author is either a complete layman or a LIAR !!!
  12. +7
    7 August 2021 21: 19
    For all the jumps and grimaces - nothing is said about the fact that all supplies are under the contract. How much is agreed - so much is supplied. No more, no less is the main thing.
  13. +8
    7 August 2021 21: 25
    Quote: alexander kotler
    What Russia is doing is not only shortsighted, but also stupid.

    Smart ass. Pipes are needed not by Merkel, but by German business. It was the business that invested more than half of the dough into this project. It is this project that is destroying the EU and playing on the contradictions of the EU countries. Germany is turning from a recipient of transported gas into a transit country. From addicted to tricks ukrov and pshek is released and becomes their master. giving or not giving gas. Look closely, who brought North from under the third energy package. Stream-1? It turns out that you CAN drive 100% of the volume on it! Who recognized the turbines supplied to the Crimean power plants are NOT quite Siemens ones? Who is looking for a way out, withdrawing Sev. Flow -2 from the same energy package, suggesting to fill half with hydrogen, not affected? It is possible, technically, it is impossible, that is another question. but they were the initiators of the scandal with the United States. Who contributed to the fact that Denmark closed their pipe to the pshek? Do they need a competitor? Who pays $ 546,3 for September gas futures now. Germany will do everything to ensure that ITSELF what it needs. CHEAP GAS. RUSSIA DOES NOT NEED CHEAP GAS. This is their game, and they will play it. Do you see beyond your own nose, stratech? Merkel is a genius politician. So to bypass any US sanctions themselves, a lot to promise ukram, but nowhere did she tell Putin what limits or prohibits. The conversation is elaborately subtle. Neither the timing nor the volume of the remaining transit through Ukraine. This is exactly what will be continued, since this position is ideal. It doesn't matter who comes. And there will be threats from candidates. They need the support of the godfather because of the puddle.
  14. +9
    7 August 2021 21: 58
    Quote: alexander kotler
    I am amazed at your stupidity. The Europeans do not need you, you need Europe. Come on, stop pampering Europe with gas and oil, what will happen to it? NOTHING! There are dozens of other energy sellers out there who will be happy to sell and make money. What will happen to Russia? Put your teeth on the shelf. Do you even understand that ?!
    Do you know that over 20 years, 10 million have fled from Russia. Yes, not simple, but smart and educated.
    They created Google, Feuisbuk, Votsap, and are driving progress.
    And there are such idiots as you.

    Southeast Asia. There the prices for the same gas are one and a half times higher. We do not need Europe, but loot. And it doesn't matter who pays us for gas, ore, metals, fertilizers, etc. ... Europe cannot find SO MUCH gas, and, most importantly, at the price that Russia can offer. Neither LNG from the United States, nor Azerbaijani gas, nor Norwegian. Stable deliveries only by pipe. And 80% of Germany's gas needs will be supplied by Nord Streams. Except for the crap, the virtual world, of course, you don't know anything. For you, the Buzz Cloud is the height of progress. Blockhead. This is inflated money that disappears with a wave of the wind, called war. Only heavy industry creates the commodity, the fortress of the country. And here none of our kulibins are needed. For any of their talents are broken by ignorance of the nomenclature and properties of materials, components, technologies and equipment. used there. I tell you this. as a design engineer. The idlers who develop toys will use their capabilities there. Common language, approaches and mathematics. But these are seeds for the bazaar.
  15. -3
    7 August 2021 22: 54
    Unfortunately, Frau Merkel will not be able to agree to work on the board of a Russian corporation. Such a step, the second chancellor in a row leaves for the Russian concern, is politically impossible.
  16. +3
    8 August 2021 01: 09
    Quote: alexander kotler
    You do not want to understand that the terms are always dictated by the buyer. The seller can only try to dictate under a monopoly. In general, the gas issue is a temporary phenomenon. In Germany today, 50% of energy is produced from renewable sources. Well, another 5 or 10 years and that's it, sales of gas, as well as oil, will fall.
    by 60-80%. Energy carriers have no long-term prospects. 20 years were killed in vain, there is no new economy, and the resource one, has ordered to live a long time.
    Do you know how much gas China (supposedly your ally) bought from Russia in a year? 4 billion cubic meters. And Europe? More than 150 billion. And you are smart enough to blackmail Europe ?! These iridescent pictures make one smile for the FRG. Compare energy revenues in Russia and Germany. Germany will not even earn money for a gold monument.
    And Russia will start starving.

    Bullshit. There is no dictator in the treaties. There are dictators when one of the parties surrenders. There is a consensus. More or less compelled with one or both sides. The buyer wants to buy gas for $ 14 per 1000 m³. Let him go and buy. In the transaction there is such a concept - CONTRACT, and this is nothing more than mutual consent.
  17. +5
    8 August 2021 01: 14
    Quote: Siegfried
    Unfortunately, Frau Merkel will not be able to agree to work on the board of a Russian corporation. Such a step, the second chancellor in a row leaves for the Russian concern, is politically impossible.

    Why "Unfortunately?" Fortunately. She has the opportunity to work on the German side and continue, to the best of her ability, a mutually agreed policy between the two countries. Moreover, not being an official of the first rank, she will be free to choose the means. Help from THAT side will be useful to us.
  18. +5
    8 August 2021 10: 36
    No one recalled that due to the increase in the cost of gas, the population in Russia will be supplied with gas for free ...
    1. -5
      8 August 2021 11: 25
      Quote: Misha MIHALKOV
      will gasify the population in Russia for free

      laughing hi
  19. +5
    8 August 2021 11: 14
    Quote: Misha MIHALKOV
    No one recalled that due to the increase in the cost of gas, the population in Russia will be supplied with gas for free ...

    Is it interesting for the financiers of this author writing this? There are people for whom the worse the country is, the better. But they will never show THIS.

  20. +4
    8 August 2021 11: 27
    Quote: alexander kotler
    Don't make people laugh, my friend! No one has ever been interested in the interests of the people (a country cannot have its own interests, the interests of the people, these are the interests of the country). The way Russia is behaving on the gas issue runs counter to your interests. It is in your interests to sell gas, and the government is doing everything to stop dealing with Russia. This is how a monopolist can behave and dictate conditions. Despite the fact that there is a lot of gas in the world, this is how they behave.

    Any people of any country wants well-being. But the methods of earning this well-being are different. Some sell resources, others are finished products, and still others, like ....... sell all of themselves. We did not reach the state of the nearest neighbor, and thank God, we will not. Apparently, you never had a brain, hence such a delusion.
  21. +5
    8 August 2021 11: 51
    Quote: alexander kotler
    Russia does not want to understand simple things. Resources, and gas in particular, become a commodity only when there is a buyer. Europe, the largest buyer of Russian gas, and what are you doing with this buyer? You do everything so that he stops cooperating with you.

    Energy, the source of which is gas, is always needed. ALWAYS as long as humanity exists. And, as the reserves are depleted, other sources and types of energy will be sought.
    The STREAMS example proves that there is NO more loyal partner than Russia. Breaking through sanctions and bans, it fulfills its obligations. The fact that the fulfillment of obligations by Russia forced to throw off the schools and thieves of Ukraine, Poland, schizophrenically resisting new routes, this is the merit of the salon themselves. We would have behaved like partners, would have received preferences. Now let the paw gnaw at the liquefied gas at triple the price. It’s amazing how they don’t understand that their transit is not needed primarily by the United States, which is interested in pumping LNG into Europe? Kohl they are against North. Streams, then are they-FOR a pipe performing the same function-transporting gas to Europe?
  22. +4
    8 August 2021 12: 27
    Quote: alexander kotler
    In Germany today, 50% of energy is produced from renewable sources. Well, another 5 or 10 years and that's it, sales of gas, as well as oil, will fall.

    https://bezgin.su/articles/140-jenergetika/57463-germanija-jenergeticheskiy-povorot-put-v-nikuda
    https://aftershock.news/?q=node/606687
    https://bezgin.su/pools
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZt0M76yfjs
    https://zen.yandex.ru/media/delyagin/specpredstavlenie-himernaia-dekarbonizaciia-6103d80c5fdf8305ff97dc4f
    https://econet.ru/articles/170125-petr-kapitsa-o-besperspektivnosti-alternativnoy-energetiki
    Read it. And, if even after that you don't start thinking, then go and shoot yourself. You've wasted your life.
  23. +3
    8 August 2021 13: 04
    Quote: DigitalError
    Quote: Misha MIHALKOV
    will gasify the population in Russia for free

    laughing hi

    What are you happy about, mistake? The pipe will be laid to the border of the farm at the expense of Gazprom, and at the expense of the consumer in the farm and at home. You’re coming out .... is this or is it better?
    1. -4
      8 August 2021 14: 03
      Quote: dub0vitsky
      In your're coming out

      I would look in profile, dear. I laugh at the naivety of some commentators and their eternal hopes for freebies. I’m just laughing, not rejoicing. There is nothing to be happy about - with such convictions (and they are definitely yours, or did you spy on TV?), After all, you will go to vote for EdRo request
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  25. +1
    8 August 2021 15: 03
    Quote: DigitalError
    Quote: dub0vitsky
    In your're coming out

    I would look in profile, dear. I laugh at the naivety of some commentators and their eternal hopes for freebies. I’m just laughing, not rejoicing. There is nothing to be happy about - with such convictions (and they are definitely yours, or did you spy on TV?), After all, you will go to vote for EdRo request

    Of course, I'm going to vote. Out of a lot of shit, I pick the least. And, as IT calls itself, is it all the same? And in the profile you can write whatever you want, the main thing is not the place, but WHO you really are. And from the comments, I see. what.....
  26. +3
    8 August 2021 17: 50
    We were told 30 years ago that profit is our everything. Well, Gazprom has learned.
    The key point: I have not heard any complaints from gas companies - Gazprom's business partners. The owners of these repositories. Although Gazprom itself is one of them. Gazprom also has stakes there in storage facilities / pipelines, there is even one storage facility where Gazprom has 100% of the shares. In the same way as in Gazprom, a lot of shares are owned by Western shareholders.
    So the Western partners are happy with everything. And above all - the price of $ 540 in AUGUST! After all, this is not the price of Gazprom, but of those hubs owned by Gazprom's partners (and Gazprom itself).
    This means that Gazprom does not work idiots, as the author of the post always believes.

    Abnormally high gas prices will allow the domestic monopolist to quickly recoup its last year's financial losses.

    Why only the "domestic monopolist"? Western companies also suffered serious losses from tightening SP2. They also have something to fight back. Therefore, they will score everything on the "political card of Washington", and also put what can and cannot be on

    respected German edition DW

    We are talking about huge grandmas. And the influence of Washington and any liberal media is rapidly declining.
    By the way, it is worth taking a closer look at the accident in Urengoy. The explosion was not weak, and there were no casualties. The plant's equipment has been working at its limit since the times of the USSR.
    Therefore, it seems to me that they will turn a blind eye to the rise in prices (after all, force majeure), and the plant will be restored at a run, with the help of Western (most likely European) firms based on the most modern and efficient technologies. And no one blinks about sanctions on high technologies. And feeble-minded politicians will be told: do you want to freeze your electorate in winter?
    And everything will be good for Gazprom.
    Capitalism, however.
  27. +2
    9 August 2021 07: 10
    In this example, Russia is not losing its reputation, but is restoring. After all, our fucking partners were constantly and groundlessly accused of gas blackmail, which never happened. We have always fulfilled our obligations to supply gas to Europe. Gazprom is still fulfilling them in full, according to the agreement, using, among other things, gas from its storage facilities in Europe. The truth is that now we have introduced such a thick intrigue into the process of interaction with gay Europeans. , which was not born. All this is very interesting to me, I continue to observe the "loss of reputation" with pleasure. Let's see how our dear "leaky" "partners" will get out.
  28. +2
    9 August 2021 08: 53
    Mododtsy! They brought the horseradish to Gayrope's nose, now we see who is the owner of the gas
  29. +2
    9 August 2021 14: 09
    Quote: alexander kotler
    Do you know that over 20 years, 10 million have fled from Russia. Yes, not simple, but smart and educated.
    They created Google, Feuisbuk, Votsap, and are driving progress.
    And there are people like you.

    Do you know that more than 20 million have left Ukraine (this is with a population of 55!), Which is TIME more than from Russia, especially considering the difference in the population of our countries. And where do they work, Ukrainian Lobachevskys, Korolevs, Alekhins, and other masters and talents? How many Google, Votsapov, and rocketry have they created in a foreign land? Are Ukrainian talents worse than Russian ones? I think we are the same in this. But, for some reason, I have not heard of any discoveries made by either Ukrainian or ours. Want to harvest strawberries? This is purely their business. Try to look ahead. And ahead of you there is the sale of land, the cultivation of GMOs prohibited throughout the world, the extraction of shale gas and oil.