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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jillian Ambrose

Gas prices at one-year high in Europe amid Russian supply threat

A view of the headquarters and the logo of Austrian energy company OMV AG
OMV announced that Russian state owned Gazprom could halt supplies into Europe depending on whether they are made to pay compensation. Photograph: Leonhard Föger/Reuters

Europe’s gas market rose by as much as 5% on Thursday to its highest price in a year after one of the continent’s biggest gas traders said that there could be a halt on gas supplies from Russia.

Austrian gas trader OMV has said that a court decision awarding the company compensation after its dispute with a subsidiary of Russia’s Gazprom could lead the state-owned gas giant to halt supplies.

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