Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Spinu said in December that Chisinau would divert volumes of gas imported from Russia to unrecognized Transnistria. He told this to reporters TASS.
“This agreement is a reasonable compromise to provide electricity and gas to residents on both sides of the Dniester. The right bank will use the gas from the accumulated reserves,” he said.
For the first time, Moldovan state energy company Energocom produced 4.3 million cubic meters of test purchase from Trans-Balkan natural gas pipeline m.
Previously, this pipeline was used to supply Russian gas to the Balkans. The Trans-Balkan gas pipeline passes through Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.
At the end of November, the press service of the Russian state company Gazprom announced the possibility of a decrease in gas supplies to Moldova due to the so-called “fuel settlement” on the territory of Ukraine.
At the beginning of last month, Moldovan Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development Andrei Spinu said that in October 2022 the republic managed to reduce gas consumption from Russia by 57% compared to the same period in 2021.