There was a pressure drop in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on the night of September 26, the reasons are being specified. The agency wrote about it DPA with reference to the operator.
According to the agency, a decrease in pressure was recorded in pipe “A”. The operator reported this to the responsible departments in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Russia. An investigation is currently underway to determine the cause of the incident.
Earlier, on September 19, the Prime Minister of the Federal State of Lower Saxony (Germany), Stefan Weil, said that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline may never be put into operation. He also noted that he considers further partnership between Russia and Germany in the field of energy to be impossible.
Prior to that, on September 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the European Union (EU) to lift sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline if Western countries were “impatient” and the energy crisis hit them seriously. According to him, the fact that the gas pipeline does not work is the fault of the EU.
Against the backdrop of the energy crisis, many politicians in Germany are calling, on the contrary, for the speedy launch of a gas pipeline that could solve the problem of gas supply. In addition, residents of German Cologne took to the action in support of Russia. People demanded the lifting of EU sanctions against Russia, as well as launching Nord Stream 2 and stopping the supply of weapons to Ukraine.
SP-2 was built to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The construction was completed in September 2021, but the gas pipeline was never put into operation, as Germany suspended the certification procedure.
The gas pipeline consists of two strings with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters. m per year, which run from the coast of Russia through the Baltic Sea to Germany.
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