石油设备网讯 据普氏能源资讯伦敦6月7日消息 德国天然气公司（VNG）--它于1973年是第一家将俄罗斯天然气输入德国的公司 - 已同意俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司出口公司在2021年和2022年以俄罗斯现有供应量购买高达3.5亿立方米/年的俄罗斯天然气合同。
该合同是德国天然气公司与俄气出口的首个直接采购协议。此前，VNG与俄气位于德国的贸易子公司WIEH签订了一项每年65亿立方米的俄罗斯天然气进口协议。
VNG董事长Ulf Heitmuller在一份声明中表示:“通过与俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司建立直接合同关系，我们提高了客户的供应安全。”
Heitmuller称:"通过进口更多天然气，我们正使市场更加强劲，并抵消欧洲产量下降的影响。"
VNG发言人对普氏表示，该协议是在圣彼得堡国际经济论坛期间签署的，也有可能在2022年后延期。
该发言人表示，与WIEH的现有合同将于2031年到期。
发言人补充道：“新协议是与俄气出口公司签订的第一份直接购买协议。它不会影响现有的合同，只是额外的合同。”VNG表示，其与俄气的合作关系正通过新的收购协议得到巩固。
Heitmuller说:“为了满足德国对天然气的需求，从经济和生态角度来看，从俄罗斯进口更多的管道天然气是最明智的选择。”
VNG Handel & Vertrieb主管表示，与俄气的新交易将有助于该公司发展批发业务，并改善其在采购和销售方面的市场地位。
2018年，德俄天然气伙伴关系迎来45周年纪念日。采购合同的成功签署，清楚地表明双方愿意进一步扩大在欧洲天然气领域的合作。
他表示:“新协议有助于扩大实物采购组合，并稳定VNG的整个欧洲交易组合。”
VNG Handel & Vertrieb表示，除了与挪威和俄罗斯的长期供应协议，该公司还通过基于短期交易的现货和期货市场供应天然气。
Gazprom和VNG还在德国Katharina天然气储藏设施合作。
当该设施在2025年达到设计能力时，它将包括12个工作气量约为6.5亿立方米的溶洞，比目前水平的大约一半有所上升。
吴慧丹 摘译自 普氏能源资讯
原文如下：
Germany's VNG agrees new short-term gas import deal with Russia's Gazprom
German gas company VNG -- which in 1973 was the first company to import Russian gas into Germany -- has agreed with Gazprom Export to buy up to 3.5 Bcm/year of Russian gas in 2021 and 2022 on top of its existing Russian supply contract, the companies said Friday.
The contract -- VNG's first direct purchase agreement with Gazprom Export -- is in addition to its existing Russian gas import deal for 6.5 Bcm/year with Gazprom's Germany-based trading subsidiary WIEH.
"Through direct contract relations with Gazprom, we increase the security of supply of our customers," VNG chairman Ulf Heitmuller said in a statement.
"By importing additional volumes of gas, we are making the market more robust and offsetting declining production in Europe," Heitmuller said.
The agreement -- signed on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum -- also has an option to be extended after 2022, a VNG spokesperson told S&P Global Platts.
The existing contract with WIEH expires in 2031, the spokesperson said.
"The new agreement is the first direct purchase agreement with Gazprom Export. It does not affect the existing contract, it is additional," the spokesperson said.
VNG -- which as well carrying out gas trading operations through its 100% subsidiary VNG Handel & Vertrieb has upstream operations with gas field assets in Norway -- said its partnership with Gazprom was being consolidated through the new purchase agreement.
"In order to meet the demand for gas in Germany, additional pipeline gas from Russia is the economically and ecologically most sensible option," Heitmuller said.
The head of VNG Handel & Vertrieb, Konstantin von Oldenburg, said the new deal with Gazprom would help it develop its wholesale activities and improve its market position in terms of procurement and sales.
"In 2018, the German-Russian gas partnership began its 45th anniversary. The successful conclusion of the purchase contract clearly underlines the willingness of both sides to further expand their cooperation in the European gas sector," von Oldenburg said.
"The new agreement contributes to the expansion of the physical purchasing portfolio and to the stabilization of VNG's entire European trading portfolio," he said.
In addition to long-term supply agreements with Norway and Russia, VNG Handel & Vertrieb also sources gas through spot and futures markets based on short-term trading, the company said.
Gazprom and VNG also work together at the Katharina gas storage facility in Germany.
When the facility reaches its design capacity in 2025, it will include 12 caverns with a working gas volume of some 650 million cu m, up from around half that level now.
