The state-appointed trustee for Gazprom Germania has been empowered to fill the northern German Rehden natural gas storage site up from its current 2% level to help ensure energy supply security, the economy ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

The Gazprom Germania assets, including the Astora storage unit that operates Rehden and other sites in Germany and Austria, were abandoned by Gazprom in the course of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and energy embargo measures in the European Union.

The measure, based on a gas storage law, will come into effect on June 2.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Vera Eckert, editing by Madeline Chambers)