{"id":481415,"date":"2022-04-02T08:37:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T03:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=481415"},"modified":"2022-04-02T09:01:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T03:31:24","slug":"europe-pursues-payment-response-as-russian-gas-supply-threat-eases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/europe-pursues-payment-response-as-russian-gas-supply-threat-eases\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe pursues payment response as Russian gas supply threat eases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) -European governments and companies were working on Friday on a common approach to Russia&#8217;s demand that they pay for its gas in roubles as the threat of an imminent supply halt eased.<\/p>\n<p>European capitals have been on alert for a disruption to gas imports for weeks as President Vladimir Putin seeks retaliation over Western sanctions for Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>A crunch point appeared to be in the offing when Moscow issued a decree on Thursday requiring foreign buyers of Russian gas to open rouble accounts in state-run Gazprombank from Friday or else risk being cut-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) -European governments and companies were working on Friday on a common approach to Russia&#8217;s demand that they pay for its gas in roubles as the threat of an imminent supply halt eased. European capitals have been on alert for a disruption to gas imports for weeks as President Vladimir Putin seeks retaliation over Western sanctions for Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. A crunch point appeared to be in the offing when Moscow issued a decree on Thursday requiring foreign buyers of Russian gas to open rouble accounts in state-run Gazprombank from Friday or else risk being cut-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}