LONDON, March 8. /TASS/. Oil company BP will not enter into new contracts for the purchase of Russian oil and gas, Bloomberg reported, citing a comment received by phone from a company representative.

According to the representative, the only exception would be a with a threat to the security of energy supplies to consumers. The purchase of hydrocarbons under existing contracts will continue.

Shell said earlier it intends to phase out the use of Russian oil and gas.