ZURICH – Austria is on monitor to achieve its goal of topping up its pure gasoline storage to 80% of capability by the beginning of the winter heating season, Vitality Minister Leonore Gewessler instructed broadcaster ORF on Monday.
She was talking after Russia’s Gazprom stated gasoline provides via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany would drop to simply 20% of capability.
“I've to imagine that this was a political announcement. For Austria, because of this we're on target to realize our storage goal. If that adjustments, we'll after all take measures, however we see that Nord Stream 1 will not be the central provide route for us. That is completely different from Germany,” she stated, noting one storage facility run by OMV had already reached the 80% goal.
Even when Nord Stream 1 was totally shut down for upkeep Austria was in a position to hold topping up storage utilizing non-Russian gasoline and provides from Russia by way of Ukraine, she stated.
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