Shell and the Danish energy company Ørsted are the next companies to stop getting Russian gas from Gazprom. Both companies refuse to pay their bills in rubles. Per Today For the same reason, Gazprom no longer supplies the Dutch gas trading company GasTerra.
At Shell, this concerns gas that would be supplied to customers in Germany, Gazprom reports. That involved 1.2 billion cubic meters of gas per year. For Ørsted, this involved 1.9 billion cubic meters of gas per year, about 80 percent of all imports into Denmark.
Shell says in a response that it will continue to supply gas to its European customers and that this gas comes from various sources. The company was already phasing out Russian oil and gas purchases due to the war in Ukraine. It continues with that.
Ørsted had already warned on Monday for an end to gas supplies from Russia when GasTerra announced that Gazprom would turn off the gas.
Gazprom’s move comes a day before the Danish people vote in a referendum on participation in the common European security and defense policy. For the past few decades, Denmark has refused to be a part of it, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought about a change.
Gazprom previously cut Finland off from Russian gas. That happened after that country decided that it wants to join NATO. Poland and Bulgaria also no longer receive gas from Gazprom.
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