Moscow, Minsk have not agreed on gas discount
MOSCOW. Jan 13 (Interfax) - The Russian and Belarusian Deputy Prime Ministers Arkady Dvorkovich and Vladimir Semasko have not agreed on a discount on Russian gas at talks, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Yanovsky told journalists.
He said that Belarus proposed not a discount by a certain percentage, but some absolute figure.
Yanovsky did not specify the size of the discount Minsk was seeking or the date of the consultations.
OJSC Gazprom Transgaz Belarus, a wholly owned Gazprom subsidiary, is the sole purchaser of Russian gas in Belarus. Since 2008 the price of gas has been calculated quarterly using a formula that incorporates price change indexes for gasoil and fuel oil (the formula was included in the intergovernmental agreement beginning in 2013). The contract price of gas in the third quarter of 2015 was $142.32 per 1,000 cubic meters.
