Analysts believe that the reason for this was the $ 3 billion lawsuit won against Gazprom.
Experts believe that Warsaw’s policy on legal claims against Gazprom has led to an increase in fuel prices for European residents.
According to energy expert Boris Martsinkevich, quoted by the YouTube channel “Baltnews”, prices in long-term contracts can no longer protect Europeans from the rising cost of blue fuel on spot markets. And & #8220;thank you” for this, his opinion should be told to Poland.
It was the Polish company PGNiG that last year won a court in Stockholm with Gazprom, forcing it to take into account market conditions when concluding contracts.
As a result, the Russian monopoly was forced to pay $ 3 billion, and this year Russian gas is growing in price, only a few months behind the spot. And the rise in price comes precisely in “long” contracts.
Thus, the company “carefully collects all the money spent on the claim & #8221; from Europe.
“It will collect both for the second and third time,” says Martsinkevich.
He added that, for example, for Bulgaria, $ 230 per thousand cubic meters at the beginning of the year turned into a price of $570 in September. And this is just a & # 8220;rehearsal” of what kind of gas future awaits all EU countries.
According to Gazprom Export, spot fuel prices affect it by 83%.
According to Martsinkevich, now & #8220;Gazprom & #8221; is counting on $ 269.6 per 1,000 cubic meters, at the beginning of the year the price was $ 170.
In October, the adjustment may exceed the mark of 300, if not 400 dollars, the analyst predicts.
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As Topnews wrote, Poland is among the opponents of the Russian-German gas project.
Gazprom’s contract with it expires next year, but Warsaw does not rule out that deliveries will continue.