Gazprom to significantly increase gas supplies to Slovakia via TurkStream
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Russian group Gazprom will significantly increase its gas supplies to Slovakia via the TurkStream pipeline starting in April, Vojtech Ferencz, the head of state-owned SPP, the operator of Slovakia’s gas pipeline network, said on Monday, Reuters reports.
Last month, SPP announced that Gazprom had resumed natural gas supplies to Slovakia in early February, using volumes ceded by Hungary for the TurkStream pipeline. The volumes were to double starting in April, but no details were given at the time about the gas quantities.
On Monday, Vojtech Ferencz said that it would be a several-fold increase compared to the volumes delivered in the past two months, not just a doubling as previously announced, thanks to the use of freed capacities on the TurkStream pipeline.
“We will not have a problem with supply. We will not have a problem with filling gas storage facilities,” said Michal Lalik, SPP’s commercial director.
Slovakia has relied on gas supplies from Hungary, which imports mainly Russian gas via the TurkStream pipeline, after Russian gas transit through Ukraine was halted at the end of 2024 when Kiev refused to renew a transit agreement with Moscow.
Slovakia and Hungary have tried to get Russian gas transit via Ukraine resumed, and Slovakia has even threatened to veto EU aid to Ukraine if Kiev does not change its position.
Russia currently supplies gas to Turkey via the Blue Stream and TurkStream pipelines across the Black Sea. Gas delivered via TurkStream is then exported to countries in southern and eastern Europe, including Hungary, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, and Serbia.
