Gazprom and Fluxys address Russian gas transit issues
RELEASE
Release
A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Walter Peeraer, Chief Executive Officer of Fluxys took place today within the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2015.
The parties addressed the current state of and the development prospects for the bilateral cooperation in the gas industry. A focus was put on Russian gas transit across Belgium to third countries.
Background
Belgian gas transmission company Fluxys owns a network of transnational gas pipelines in Northwestern Europe with an annual throughput capacity of 82 billion cubic meters. The company also deals with natural gas and LNG transit and storage.
Fluxys provides Gazprom with gas transmission capacities to supply gas to the UK.