Austria threatens to take gas storage in Salzburg from Gazprom

Austria may transfer the Haidach UGS facility, operated by Gazprom Germania's subsidiary, to other companies if Gazprom refuses to fill it, the Chancellor said.offering to act on the principle of "use it or lose it"

Austrian Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer has threatened Gazprom to transfer the Haidach underground gas storage facility to other companies if it refuses to fill it. This Nehammer said in an interview with the newspaper Kronen Zeitung.

“If the Russian Gazprom does not fill up our largest storage facility, we will take it for other suppliers,” he said.

The publication clarified that we are talking about the Haidach UGS facility in Salzburg, which is currently de facto empty.

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The Haidach UGS facility is operated by Astora GmbH, a subsidiary of Gazprom Germania. At the end of March, Gazprom withdrew from the capital of the German Gazprom Germania (its sole founder is OOO Gazprom EXPORT) and all its assets. Later, Gazprom Germania and Astora came under Russian sanctions , after which the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habek said that Gazprom Germania's subsidiaries stopped receiving gas.

The chancellor announced plans for the first time in the country to create a "state strategic reserve" of gas in underground storage facilities and proposed to act on the principle of "use it or lose it." If Gazprom does not pump gas into the storage, other companies will, he explained in an interview with Kleine Zeitung.

RBC sent a request to a representative of Gazprom.

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Earlier, the Austrian authorities refused to switch to the scheme proposed by RUSSIA for paying for gas supplies - for rubles. At the same time, the HEAD of the Austrian energy company OMV, Alfred Stern, pointed out that the country is not yet ready to impose a ban on the import of Russian fuel due to the inability to provide the necessary level of gas supply. “I don't think we are ready for an embargo today. Unless we're willing to accept the consequences. Because one thing needs to be clearly understood: our gas supply is provided not by our own production in Europe, but by supplies from Russia,” he said.