Poland requires extra charge of $ 410 million from Gazprom

Viliyana Filipova — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:35:14 +0000

Poland intends, if necessary through the court to ask the giant Gazprom total 410 million dollars as part of charges for gas transmission to past periods. This Polish newspaper reported Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, citing unofficial sources of information in Polish. According to the paper 350 million dollars of this amount are fees for transit of Russian gas through the country during 2006/09, since the Polish side is now estimated that the fees paid for the period were low. For the remaining 60 million claim for the energy concern PGNiG requested but undelivered gas in Poland last year by the current company for a short time firm RosUkrEnergo, as its liquidation after Gazprom took over all of its obligations. It is from PGNiG claim that they are prepared to file suit against Gazprom in order to get those 60 million dollars.
Earlier, Polish President Lech Kaczynski criticized the government that the new gas contract between Gazprom and Poland, in his view, leads to greater reliance on gas supplies from the country of Russia.

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Poland requires extra charge of $ 410 million from Gazprom