One of the latest buyers: Austrian company arrested Russian gas for 230 million euros - media

Reuters sources report that for the first time a client from the EU did not pay Gazprom for gas supply. Gazprom, in turn, stopped supply to the Austrian company. The OMV oil and gas company confiscated Russian gas for 230 million euros after won arbitration against Gazprom in Germany due to irregular deliveries to the German unit. The Russian company, in turn, called it non -payment and stopped supply of gas, although the OMV agreement was calculated by 2040, Reuters writes, citing its sources.

For over 50 years, the Russian Gazprom has supplied gas to the Austrian OMV. After a full -scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine in 2022, this company remained one of the few buyers of Russian gas in Europe. On November 13, OMV reported that she had won arbitration against Gazprom in Germany worth 230 million euros. The Austrians were ordered through irregular supplies to the German unit. The company has announced that they would take measures to compulsory recover from Gazprom's accounts.

Three days later, Gazprom stopped supplying OMV gas. Close to Gazprom and OMV, the sources said that the Austrian company, based on the arbitration decision, arrested gas supply for October for 230 million euros, journalists write. One of the sources close to Gazprom said that for the first time a client from the European Union did not pay the Russian company for gas, and Gazprom regards the seizure of gas as non -payment, and therefore the supply has stopped.

If Ukraine, as it is planned, is a break on Russian gas transit in January next year, the confiscation of gas instead of payment for the arbitration decision is the last chance to receive compensation for the OMV, the material is close to the Austrian company.

A source close to OMV reported that it is considering Gazprom's detention of gas supplies to October instead of an arbitration decision as the last chance to do so if Ukraine, which plans to terminate the Russian gas transit agreement through its territory next year, will stop the flow of Russian gas. In January. The sources also noted that OMV has been buying gas in Russia since 1968.

The latest actions of the Austrian company indicate that, despite the contract concluded by 2040, it is looking for ways to completely abandon gas purchases at Gazprom. One source reported that the cessation of Russian gas supply last week gives the OMV grounds to blame Gazprom for breach of the contract. Gazprom refused to comment on the situation, journalists say. The OMV press service confirmed that the supply from Gazprom has stopped and the Austrian company does not expect their restoration.

Earlier, the seizure of OMV gas and non -payment for Gazprom's gas was not reported in October, in Reuters we recall that on November 19, foreign publications wrote about the first test of the HyflexPower Superburbine, which will put an end of gas from Russia. It has been reported that the project will work on renewable water and will be able to provide energy with all European countries.