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Naturgy agrees with Sonatrach the price of its gas contract for this year and will continue negotiating for 2023

MADRID, 6 Oct.

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Naturgy agrees with Sonatrach the price of its gas contract for this year and will continue negotiating for 2023

MADRID, 6 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Naturgy and Sonatrach have reached an agreement to review the price of their natural gas supply contracts that retroactively affects the volumes supplied this year, and they will continue to negotiate the prices applicable from 2023.

As reported by the company to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), the agreements establish the new price that will be applied retroactively for the volumes supplied until the end of 2022 and that, as established in the contracts between Sonatrach and Naturgy for revisions of price, taking into account market conditions.

Thus, the energy company chaired by Francisco Reynés indicated that the two companies continue to negotiate the prices applicable from January 1, 2023 within the framework of the contractual clauses.

The agreements signed this Thursday have been approved by Naturgy's board of directors and are subject to ratification by the highest Algerian government authorities.

This very morning, in an informative meeting organized by CEOE-Cepyme, Reynés himself already assured that the negotiations with Sonatrach for the revision of the natural gas supply contract with Algeria "are progressing very well" and "soon" there would be "good news ", although he stressed that this "good news will not be complete, since prices will logically rise".

However, he stressed that the price revision would not be as high as "the exorbitant figures that have been said in some forums." Naturgy had been carrying out this open review all year, since the previous one took place in 2020 with market prices around 20 euros per megawatt hour (MWh), while natural gas is currently trading at around 180 euros/MWh.

The contracts currently in force between Naturgy and Sonatrach were signed more than 20 years ago and are valid until 2030 for an annual volume of around 5 bcm (billions of cubic meters) and entail firm volume commitments, both for Sonatrach's supply and for forced withdrawal of gas for Naturgy via 'take or pay' clauses (which oblige to pay even if the gas is renounced).

Both companies are two of the oldest commercial partners in the supply of gas to Europe, since they signed their first contract in 1965, two years after the creation of Sonatrach.