Russian natural gas supplies to Slovakia will be halved compared to the volume stipulated in contracts on Friday, Slovak gas utility SPP general director Richard Prokypcak announced at the Spring ITAPA 2022 conference on Friday. However, he gave assurances that this reduction would not threaten Slovakia, noting that SPP has signed a contract for gas supplies from the North Sea. These are already flowing to Slovakia, while gas from the LNG tanker most recently unloaded in Croatia is on its way as well. "For every megawatthour we are lacking at the moment, we're filling our gas reservoirs with an extra two megawatthours," he said.
Slovakia will not therefore be hit by the halving of Russian gas supplies in any way, stated the SPP chief. "We're working on other ways to deal with a situation in which supplies would be completely halted," he said.
Slovakia's gas reservoirs are currently 52-percent full. However, in relation to total annual consumption, Slovakia has more gas in its storage facilities than any other Visegrad Four (V4 - Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) country.
Source: TASR
