Gazprom Says Accusation of Withholding Gas Is Absurd

  • Company’s exports were up 17% in first 8 1/2 months of year
  • Other main suppliers to EU cut exports in Jan.-June: Gazprom
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Gazprom PJSC rejected accusations that it has been withholding natural gas supplies from Europe as the region battles its worst energy crunch in decades.

Data on Gazprom’s production and exports to Europe and Turkey prove that “it’s absurd” to accuse the state-run company of under-supplying the region, Sergey Komlev, head of contract structuring at Gazprom Export, said in an in-house magazine on Friday.