Bosnia’s Gas Importer Says Russian Supplies Back to Normal

Russian gas deliveries were resumed on Tuesday, when the first quantities of gas, or 214,000 cubic metres per day, reached the Hungarian-Serbian border on their way to Bosnia, BH Gas said earlier.

“Today at 0800 hours [local time] [0700 GMT] the supply of natural gas from Gazprom was completely normalised. […] The gas is being delivered as usual according to the existing contracts with the supplier and the transmitter,” the company said in a statement.

“There are no problems with deliveries,” it said.

Russian gas supplies to Bosnia came to a complete halt on January 6 following a gas price row between Russia and Ukraine. Bosnia gets its natural gas, all of it Russian, via a single pipeline coming from Ukraine, Hungary and its neighbour Serbia. Gas deliveries to the country were renewed on January 10 after German E.ON Ruhrgas agreed with BH Gas to supply up to 1.5 million cubic metres daily via Hungary and Serbia.

“BH Gas has cancelled the agreement with E.ON Ruhrgas and expresses its gratitude to this supplier,” BH Gas said.

The disruption in Russian gas supply to the country caused many factories to suspend production and left thousands of households across the country without heating amidst freezing winter temperatures.

Bosnia is a relatively small gas consumer with annual consumption at some 350 million cubic metres.