Germany To Abstain From Russian LNG Imports

Germany expects the country’s LNG importers to abstain from Russian deliveries amid efforts to become independent from Russian supply, economy ministry spokeswoman, Susanne Ungrad said.

• “The German government assumes that no Russian LNG will be regasified at German LNG terminals in the next few years,” Ungrad said.
• “We assume this because the companies have told us so. This goes both for state-owned LNG terminals]and private ones”, Ungrad added.
• Still, the ministry noted that it was impossible to rule out that “minimal” amounts might be making into the country as t could be mixed in amid pipeline gas from other countries shipping from eastern Europe.
• It can also not be ruled out that LNG coming from other countries that still received Russian gas and then ship onwards to Germany had not mixed in fuel, she added.