NLMK Group, an international steel company with operations in Russia, the United States, and the European Union, has signed an additional agreement to its contract with Novatek for the supply of natural gas to the Lipetsk site. Similar additional agreements to contracts for the supply of natural gas to NLMK Group’s other key Russian production facilities (with the exception of Altai-Koks that does not consume natural gas; Novatek supplies NLMK Group production facilities with a total of 2.8 billion cubic meters of gas per year) will be signed in the nearest future.
The agreement is an addition to a 5-year contract that came into effect on January 1. Under the contact, Novatek supplies a total of 2.6 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year to the Lipetsk production site. Supply volumes will remain the same. The additional agreement that came into effect on July 1, extends the term of cooperation to December 31, 2025.
Sergey Chebotarev, NLMK Group Vice President for Energy, said: “The agreement reached last year with Novatek for the supply of a key source of energy for the Group’s energy-intensive operations supported an improvement in the efficiency of energy supplies to our main production sites in Russia. The long-term supply on mutually beneficial terms will further strengthen the market position of both NLMK as the consumer, and Novatek as the supplier of natural gas”. (NLMK/Ukrainian metal)
