Gazprom Increases Gas Supply to Greece at Emergency Request
January 27, 2012, 8:35 AM ESTBy Anna Shiryaevskaya
(Updates with volumes in second paragraph.)
Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- OAO Gazprom’s natural-gas deliveries to Greece are exceeding contracted levels after cold weather hindered supplies through Turkey, the Moscow-based company said today in an e-mailed statement.
Russia’s gas-export monopoly increased daily supplies to the southern European nation by more than 2 million cubic meters starting Jan. 20. It supplied 2.9 billion cubic meters of the fuel to Greece last year.
“Gazprom has more than once responded to urgent requests from partners by increasing supplies above daily contracted volumes,” Sergei Kupriyanov, a company spokesman, said in the statement.
Gazprom may build the South Stream gas pipeline across Greece, the company said in a separate statement after Chief Executive Officer Alexey Miller met with Antonis Samaras, the head of Greece’s New Democracy party, in Moscow today.
--Editors: Will Kennedy, Amanda Jordan
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