Moldovagaz announces reduction of gas import price
Moldovagaz said the price of Russian natural gas in the fourth quarter will be $ 114 thousand cubic meters, or almost $ 20 lower than the import price in the third quarter.
According to extensive information published by the company on a social network, the final import price consists of several components. Procured from the International Commodity and Commodity Exchange in St. Petersburg, the gas will cost 48 US dollars per thousand cubic meters.
To this amount will be added tariffs for the use of the main gas pipelines of JSC "Gazprom" (US $ 37 per thousand cubic meters) and for transportation of natural gas to the territory of Ukraine (US $ 29.01 or US $ 33.93).
As a consequence, it was completed in US $ 114.01 and US $ 118.92, respectively, if the necessary daily transport capacity on the territory of Ukraine can be used.
In order to provide consumers with a natural gas, JSC "Moldovagaz", during the period, signs short (one year), medium (3 years) and lungs (5 years) agreements.
For comparison, the company Moldovagaz noted that in the third quarter Turkey (which has three natural gas supply routes from Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan), bought Russian gas for $ 188.62, Iran - for $ 191.73 , and Azerbaijan - with 180.67 US dollars for a thousand cubic meters.