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Неопнтяно, зачем тогда вообще трубу в море бухать, если качать минимум, а основные объемы - по-прежнему транзитом?
А кто им доверит контроль над транзитами? Чтоб они опять из вентиля орудие шантажа сделали? Вы почитайте, как поляки в истериках бьются
Polish commentary: Gazprom deal with German firm "challenge" for Central
Europe
Text of report by Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza web site on 13 April
Russia and Germany have decided to intensify cooperation in the gas
industry. The alliance between Berlin and Moscow is supposed to lead to the
construction of the gas pipeline circumventing Poland and increasing
Gazprom's role in the system of German gas pipelines, just across our
western border.
At the Hannover fair on Monday [11 April], Gazprom signed a letter of intent
about expanding its cooperation with the German gas company Wingas,
controlled by the concern BASF. As we have already reported, Wingas will
become a shareholder in Gazprom's company that is supposed to build the gas
pipeline across the Baltic Sea, linking Russia and Germany directly.
Gazprom will also increase its stake in Wingas from 35 per cent to almost
50 per cent, increasing its influence over this company, which manages one
of the most modern networks of gas mainlines in Europe. In exchange, the
German company will become a shareholder in Gazprom's company that was set
up to harness vast gas deposits in Siberia. This is the first time that
Gazprom has allowed a foreign investor access to its strategic gas
deposits. The gas extracted from these deposits is supposed to be
transported through a pipeline across the Baltic Sea to Germany, and from
there sold on European markets by the German-Russian company. It is
anticipated that agreements to supplement the terms of the letter of intent
will be signed in September, during the next summit between Germany and
Russia.
"Behind Gazprom there are colossal reserves of gas, and behind our German
partners there are huge markets. Together we are a force!" Gazprom Chairman
Aleksey Miller said pompously.
The Hannover agreement was given a political dimension. The companies from
Russia and Germany signed it in the presence of President Vladimir Putin
and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. "This is an excellent sign of Russia's
involvement in the European economy, in the most important, energy
direction," Putin said on Tuesday during a meeting with representatives of
the Russian government [as published]. The president stated that the
contract would establish "favourable conditions for resolving other, big
tasks." What big tasks Russia was interested in, Putin did not say.
This gas alliance is a challenge for Poland and other countries of Central
Europe, new EU members. The gas pipeline across the Baltic Sea is, after
all, a competitor for the second thread of the Yamal pipeline across
Poland. The Russians were supposed to build this pipeline by 2001, but so
far they have not even begun to design it. At the same time, when the
thread was first to be built considerable investments were already
undertaken with the second thread in mind. Poland also forfeited, through
2019, profits from the profitable transit of Russian gas to Germany.
In March, the prime ministers of Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania appealed to
the Council of Europe to support the project of building an "amber" gas
pipeline on their territory, alternative to the gas pipeline across the
Baltic Sea. "This concept is, in an obvious way, competitive with respect
to the proposal of building a pipeline along the Baltic sea floor," Prime
Minister Belka said at a news conference in Brussels.
The German-Russian gas alliance sealed in Hannover could deal a blow to the
economic interests of the new EU member states. In our case, this alliance
means, for example, the creation of a platform for Gazprom, from the Wingas
company, to potentially expand into Poland's Western Pomorze region. It is
essentially as if the Germans are giving the market in Poland to the
Russians in exchange for limited access to deposits in Siberia.
The alliance from Hannover could also be considered a master stroke of
Russian gas diplomacy. The daily Vedomosti noted that now it would be
easier for Gazprom to win in the competition between German concerns. In
effect, the Russians will be able to persuade the concern E.ON Ruhrgas, for
example, to provide shares in its companies. So far, E.ON Ruhrgas,
Gazprom's largest western shareholder, was able to play the game with the
Russians on its own terms. Now we will have to expect that Gazprom will
dictate the conditions. This could nip in the bud the attempts to generate
competition in the energy markets in Central and Eastern Europe.
Source: Gazeta Wyborcza web site, Warsaw, in Polish 13 Apr 05