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"Our Chinese friends are difficult, hard negotiators," he said, noting that
talks went on until 4 a.m.
"Through mutual compromise we managed to reach not only acceptable, but
rather satisfactory, terms on this contract for both sides. Both sides were
in the end pleased by the compromise reached on price and other terms," the
president said.
Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller declined to say at what price the deal was struck,
but sources at the companies involved said Gazprom refused to go below $350
per thousand cubic metres.
That compares to a price range of $350-$380 most European utilities pay
under discounted long-term contracts signed in the last two years. Putin
said the formula was similar to the European price tied to the market value
of oil and oil products.
For China, the implied price is crucially below the Asian cost of importing
liquefied natural gas (LNG), an alternative energy source it is developing. |
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