Baltic States Doubt Gazprom Role in LNG Terminal
Companies owned by Russian gas giant Gazprom should not be involved in any Baltic liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal representatives of Latvia and Estonia have said.
Quoted by Reuters, they said this was because idea behind such a terminal is to cut the region's dependence on Russian supplies.
"Being independent of the present monopoly gas supplier is an unavoidable prerequisite for Estonia's support for the regional LNG terminal," Estonia's minister of economy and communication Juhan Parts said.
Gas companies Gasum in Finland and Vorguteenus in Estonia - both of which are partially owned by Gazprom - earlier this week signed an agreement to promote the Finnish town Inkoo for an LNG terminal and a pipeline to Paldiski in Estonia.