Uniper is a German giant that represents one of the largest buyers of gas from Gazprom, but that following all the current geopolitical situation has announced the absolute cessation in the reception and supply of gas natural russian. This supply has maintained an upward reduction since mid-June until reaching the end of the process and consequently the confirmation of the German gas company of its independence from natural gas from Russia.
This Uniper report establishes that following several interruptions of various intensities, it has finally been completely stopped supplying the gas natural From Russiawhich triggers the alarms and leads to the fact that if Germany and Europe cannot avoid the imminent gas shortage, it is possible that decisions regarding where and how should this resource be saved energetic.
Gazprom closes the gas tap to Uniper
Europe maintains and is governed by a regulation where there are privileged customers or rather protected clients in the event of a hypothetical episode of imminent shortage, such as the current case of energy crisis unleashed by the Russia-Ukraine war and by the evident proximity of winter. Among these actors are private consumers, nursing homes, schools, universities and hospitals.
That is, the commercial and industrial sector with a priority over all those non-protected sectors. Hence good decisions are simply a necessity to avoid harm, that in one way or another affect the healthy development of the daily activities of an entire nation. A scenario that a year ago was inconceivable for many of these first world companies and that despite their leadership worldwide are dependent on energy from Russia.
High prices with little energy supply
But it is that this problem goes much further than being included or not in the list of companies that would not benefit from the supply of energy, and it is that many of them will not be able to bear the high prices of natural gas, generating that the closures are imminent while this problem caused by the extinction of the supply of energy from Russian gas is corrected. Therefore, the structural and economic damage will be transported in the best of cases to the final prices of its manufactures, in order to try to maintain a kind of survival while better times arrive.
The consequences of this energy disaster that, although it is sponsored by Russia, maintains a very high share of guilt in the economies and in the various European marketssince in effect bad policies have allowed the dependence of an entire continent towards the almost total exclusivity of energy from a single country, has triggered this energy crisis that, although it is just beginning with the approach of the winter season.
An energy collapse and an approaching winter without natural gas
It is expected a collapse in supply chains where canceled deliveries will indeed abound and a constant and sustained escalation of prices where, in effect, all governments are preparing for it. And it is that the constant and unstoppable rise in fuel prices (internationally speaking) makes the same Uniper is unable to face and maintain this situation. What has generated certain expectations within the sector and also the silence of the state allows us to infer that gloomy times are coming.
The communiqués stress the importance of getting enter the winter with the strength of having the stores fully and absolutely full, so work is maintained at the highest level to achieve it. Therefore, a very high import capacity is needed, but also a maximum natural gas saving capacity. Because the volumes of gas that Russia is not dispatching in breach of contract are being replaced by volumes from the Netherlands and Norway at very high prices and especially liquefied gas.