Interviews
Interview by Alexey Miller with TV Rossiya 24
“This agreement was achieved only because both parties – Russia and China – made concessions. The talks were quite difficult. Of course, for all this time we’d been in direct touch with Russian President Vladimir Putin, reporting to him on the progress of the talks. I’ll stress it once again, this contract could be signed under such conditions only within a visit. The contract volume: we’ll earn USD 400 billion in 30 years, having spent only USD 55 billion.”
Interview by Alexey Miller with TV Rossiya 24
“Gazprom is a socially responsible company. And Russian state owns the majority stake. And problems we solve are very complex. First of all, certainly, it is about securing the reliable gas supply to customers across Russia and our partners abroad and passing through the autumn/winter peak consumption. Winters here are cold, we live in the northern country. I would like to remind you that every second each bulb in the country is fed by Gazprom’s gas. In parallel, we address other matters. Among them, to boost our contributions to the state budget and, by all means, the growth of our shareholders’ income from dividends. And no doubt that the Company should meet all these challenges, but to achieve the main objective – the reliable gas supply to all our customers during the winter and summer periods across Russia and abroad.”
Interview by Alexey Miller to Russian TV channels
“The valid gas supply contracts with Ukraine were signed in January 2009. These are – the contract for gas supply to Ukraine and the contract for gas transit through Ukraine to Europe, which both are the long-term contracts valid for 10 years. And the main thing is that they were drawn up and entered in accordance with the market principles. First, it covers pricing formula, market pricing and the ‘take-or-pay’ principal being general for the whole gas market, including the European one. On the one hand, it considers pricing risks; on the other hand, it considers risks related to gas volumes. So, pricing risks are the risks beard by a purchaser, and gas volume risks – by a supplier.”