The Netherlands and Germany will mutually drill for another gas field in the North Sea, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate declared.
State Secretary Hans Vijlbrief has “gave grants for the Dutch part today,” said the Ministry in a proclamation on Wednesday.
The permit will be “accessible for review on the web” from Friday, and an “sped up methodology” for the expected grants is in progress in Germany. The declaration came a day after Russia’s energy organization Gazprom halted its gas supply to the Netherlands, as a response to Dutch gas organization GasTerra’s refusal to pay in roubles.
The new drilling field will be situated in the North Sea, in excess of 19 kilometers seaward on the Dutch-German line.
A pipeline is being worked to move the gas ashore, and there will likewise be a link to a close by German breeze ranch for the power supply on the gas field. The primary gas is supposed to be created toward the finish of 2024, it added.
This comes after, Denmark’s biggest energy organization said Russia cut off its gas supply Wednesday since it wouldn’t pay in rubles, the most recent heightening over European energy in the midst of the conflict in Ukraine.
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Russia recently ended gas supplies to Finland, Poland and Bulgaria for declining an interest to pay in rubles. What’s more, on Tuesday, the tap was switched off to the Netherlands.
Danish energy organization Ørsted said it actually expected to have the option to serve its clients.
“We stand firm in our refusal to pay in rubles, and we’ve been planning for this situation,” Ørsted CEO Mads Nipper said. “The circumstance supports the need of the EU becoming autonomous of Russian gas by speeding up the form out of environmentally friendly power.”
In light of Western authorizations forced against Russia for its attack of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin marked a pronouncement saying unfamiliar purchasers expected to pay in rubles for Russian gas as of April 1.
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