Estonia stores its gas supply in Latvia
Sep 24, 1998
Urmas Tooming
TALLINN - If Russia were to cut off the gas supply to Estonia, the country will still have land gas for at least a year because the Incukalns underground storage in Latvia holds at least 2 billion cubic metres of gas. Less than an hour's drive from the Ikla border station, Latvijas Gaze, Latvia's partially-privatized gas concern, operates its subordinate company, Gazes Kratuve, which pumps at least two million cubic meters of Russian land gas underground into natural storage tanks. In winter, th ...
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