OSLO (Reuters) – Swedish state-owned utility Vattenfall has not been purchasing gas or other energy commodities from UK-based Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GMT) since September, it told Reuters on Wednesday. “We removed Gazprom Marketing and Trading from our active counterpart list in September 2021 and have not purchased from them since then,” Vattenfall spokesperson Markus Friberg told Reuters. The subsidiary is 100% owned by Russia’s Gazprom. “We decided at the time to limit the exposure to a few counterparts, which excluded GMT,” Friberg said. “We will not purchase from Gazprom Marketing an…