Uniper’s CEO met with the Putin administration in Moscow as recently as November
Uniper to honour Russian gas contracts
German utility writes off Nord Stream 2 investment but cites supply security for maintaining contractual supply
Germany’s Uniper will not cancel its import contracts with Russia’s Gazprom on the grounds of maintaining European gas supply security. But it will record a full impairment loss on its financing of the ill-fated Nord Stream 2 pipeline, resume the sales process of its Russian power generation arm as soon as possible and sign no more agreements for Russian gas imports. Uniper, majority-owned by Finnish utility Fortum, has c.35.7bn m³ of gas under multi-year long-term supply deals, of which 19.3bn m³ is Russian. “Uniper sees it as its mission to do everything in its means to supply people in Germany and Europe with energy… especially in these volatile times, the firm says, promising to “continu
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