Gas flows via the Yamal-Europe pipeline, which usually travel west from Russia to Europe, remained in reverse on Monday with volumes in line with last week's levels, data from German network operator Gascade showed.
This will be the ninth week the link between Poland and Germany has been operating in the reverse direction, since Dec. 21, putting upward pressure on European gas prices. Flows from Germany to Poland via the Mallnow metering point stood at around 1.5 million kilowatt hours per hour (kWh/h) on Monday morning, unchanged from the levels seen over the last week.
Renominations, or bids, to flow gas from Germany to Poland are expected to remain at around 1.5 million kWh/h until Tuesday morning. The pipeline usually accounts for about 15% of Russia's annual westbound supply of gas to Europe and Turkey.
Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom, which can book pipeline capacity at daily auctions, had not ordered any transit capacity for February via the route.
It also did not book capacity for the second and third quarters of the year.
On another major route for Russian deliveries to Europe, for supply to Slovakia from Ukraine via the Velke Kapusany border point, capacity nominations for Monday rose to 362,718 MWh from 282,820 MWh on Friday.
Nominations via this route hit a 2022 high of 850,143 MWh at the start of February.
