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Friday, 29.03.2024, 13:33
Latvijas Gaze, Swiss Verum Plus get Lithuanian gas supplies licenses
Verum Plus with undisclosed shareholders sells various raw materials including crude
and its products. In January of 2016, it signed a one-year contract with
Lithuania's Klaipedos Nafta on handling of heavy fuel oil products shipped from
Belarus' Mozyr crude refinery, with the possibility to extend the deal for two
more years. It also has a gas transmission contract with Amber Grid.
Verum Plus is headed by Andrey Poliakov
who used to work in Litasco, subsidiary of the Russian oil concern Lukoil and, after being sacked, was
briefly employed in Azerbaijan's state-run oil company Socar.
Latvia's state-run company Latvenergo,
which was not able to import gas from Lithuania in the past due to a ban from Latvijas Gaze, last week signed a gas
supplies contract with Lietuvos Duju
Tiekimas (Lithuanian Gas Supplies, LDT) and should shortly start importing
liquefied natural gas (LNG) imported via the Klaipeda LNG terminal in
Lithuania.
Currently, 33 companies have gas supplies licenses in Lithuania but merely
eight conduct operations.