Germany is better prepared for the next maintenance of the Nord Stream pipeline, Germany’s gas storage facilities are almost 85% full. This was announced on August 31 by the head of the Federal Network Agency of the country (regulator) Klaus Müller.
“Germany is better prepared for the next “maintenance” of Nord Stream: gas storage facilities are almost 85% full, and in winter we can also take gas again, we save gas (it should remain so!), LNG terminals are being built, and thanks to Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway (and soon France), gas flows,” he wrote on Twitter.
Gas supplies via the Nord Stream pipeline have been suspended due to repair work at GPU No. 24 at the Portovaya compressor station for three days, from August 31 to September 2.
The stoppage of supplies via the Nord Stream gas pipeline due to the need to repair the only gas compressor unit remaining in operation was warned at the Russian company Gazprom earlier, on August 19.
According to Aleksey Grivach, director of gas problems at the National Energy Security Fund, Europe may face additional shutdowns of Nord Stream even after the completion of the planned work in the period. He clarified that four of the six main Siemens turbines of the Portovaya gas pumping station are currently in Russia awaiting maintenance, and one has been delivered to Germany.
On the eve of the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that nothing interferes with gas supplies to Europe via Nord Stream, except for the problems caused by anti-Russian sanctions. He added that the sanctions against Russia do not allow for normal maintenance, as well as legalize the return of parts.
On August 30, the Berliner Zeitung newspaper reported that activists held a demonstration in front of the Nord Stream 2 (NP-2) terminal in the Lubmin community in northeastern Germany demanding the gas pipeline be launched. Martin Sellner, the leader of the far-right Austrian Identitarian Movement, threatened to put the pipeline into operation himself.
On June 14 and 15, Gazprom announced the shutdown of two, and then another of the gas pumping units serving the pipeline. The company cannot return turbines from maintenance from Canada. Because of this, the flow of gas to Germany through Nord Stream has decreased to 40% of the gas pipeline’s capacity. The gas crisis began in the country.
After negotiations between Berlin and Ottawa, the Canadian side returned the turbine to Germany, but so far the equipment has not been delivered to Russia and is located in the German city of Mülheim an der Ruhr. Gazprom has repeatedly noted that anti-Russian sanctions hinder the solution of the situation with the transportation of the Siemens turbine for Nord Stream.
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