Italy, Poland and Slovakia's natural gas supplies from Russia were between 8% and 10% lower than normal as of 1100 GMT Wednesday, but those countries were able to cover the missing supply by using stored gas or getting additional supplies from other sources, a spokeswoman for the European Commission said.
Italy
,
Poland
and
Slovakia
's
natural gas supplies from
Russia
were
between 8% and 10% lower than normal as of 1100 GMT Wednesday, but those
countries were able to cover the missing supply by using stored gas or getting
additional supplies from other sources, a spokeswoman for the European
Commission said.
"All were able to cover for the missing amount," Marlene Holzner, spokeswoman
for Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told Dow Jones Newswires. "As
there is enough gas on the market, we are confident that the market will
allocate."
Russian gas producer OAO Gazprom (GAZP.RS) said earlier Wednesday that it has
increased gas deliveries to
Europe
amid
colder weather and is fulfilling all contractual obligations, responding to
media reports that it had been forced to lower supplies to some European
countries due to high seasonal demand at home.
The EU faced a deep crisis in 2009, when supplies of Russian gas plunged
because of a price dispute between
Russia
and
Ukraine
. That
prompted the bloc to invest in infrastructure to improve its response capacity.
Countries improved storage capacity and increased interconnections to enable
the movement of gas in many different directions.
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