Natural gas supply via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline will be reduced from its current 40% capacity
Russian energy major Gazprom will stop the operation of another Siemens turbine, the company announced on Monday. The supply through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline will not exceed 33 million cubic meters per day starting July 27, business daily Kommersant has reported. That would correspond to 20% of the pipeline's capacity.
Gazprom says the decision to switch off the turbine was made based on its technical condition and the fact that it’s due for an overhaul.
According to an earlier report by Kommersant, several of the nine turbines at the Portovaya compressor station are in need of repair.
The current licensing agreement allows Siemens Energy to accept five more turbines for repair before the end of 2024.
This follows a dispute between Russia, Canada and Germany over a Siemens turbine that had been sent to Montreal for repairs and was not returned on time due to Ottawa’s sanctions against Moscow. Gazprom cited the delay as the reason for a 60% reduction in gas flow to Germany last month. Canada eventually sent the part to Germany, where it is currently awaiting shipment to Russia. Gazprom said earlier on Monday that the paperwork it had received from Canada and Siemens regarding the shipment of the turbine did not clear up sanctions-related questions.
Last week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz suggested that Berlin could no longer rely on Moscow when it came to gas supplies and said he wasn’t convinced by Russia’s statements that the repaired Siemens turbine that had been delayed was necessary for the full functioning of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. Moscow rejected the claim on Monday, with the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying that a decrease in the volume of supplies was due to technical problems resulting from Western sanctions.
This is so exciting, I can barely wait for winter. Rolling for coldest winter in 50 years.
Cameron Rivera
This. Holy shit we might get a germ free Europe soon
Benjamin Russell
Even with - 20 Celsius which has not happened in eu for years people can survive without any heating
Samuel Ward
When is Europe finally gonna apologize to Russia already and stop the sanctions so their own citizens won't starve?
Nathan Harris
The USA told Germany not to become dependent on Russia for energy and to build LNG ports so they can import gas from anywhere.
Angel Garcia
Do you think custom make compressors are just laying around? Is your IQ higher than a box of rocks?
Gavin Hernandez
because it's probably all a scam of russia, germany, USA, just like C19 is a supranational scam. on the other hand nordstream 2 could be started and we could see what happens. my guess is the gas would flow. russia doesn't openly refuse to deliver.
Jose Jackson
Even if Russia would just suddenly be okay I would want this to continue just for german suffering
Aaron Baker
>When is Europe finally gonna apologize to Russia already and stop the sanctions so their own citizens won't starve?
I'm not sure the Russians would even care about that anymore.
James Powell
The USA wants to sell its expensive shitty gas, which noone wants to buy, so they started a proxy war with Russia to induce demand.
Leo Campbell
Our politicians won't care. Even if tens of thousands of people would die, them not having to admit that they fucked up is more important. Alternatively, Germans freezing to death was always the goal to begin with.
Henry Cooper
WE VILL TAKE THE EU DOWN WITH US
Adrian Davis
It's a small price to pay for freedom and democracy in Ukraine. Germans can live without heat, just look at how hot it is outside.
Isaac Myers
>Summer is when you fill your gas storages for winter
just fill some bottles with warm water and you will be fine, sheit.
Brody Green
My schizo take would be that it's done intentionally to bankrupt our energy providers and nationalize them on the cheap. They already did it with Uniper, first dumped it from 40€/share in January to 6.58€/share today and then announced they will bail them out, but >at 30% of the current share volume being issued again and sold to them at 1.7€/share >every € of additional aid given by the government to Uniper involved 2€ worth of shares being given to the government 2030 needs full centralization in everything. As long as private companies are on the market, they cannot fully vaporize you. But if EVERYTHING belongs to them? Well, then you doing a wrongthink results in you having no gas, no electricity, no running water, an invalidated passport and an e-car that has been remotely bricked.
Gavin Watson
If only they would reduce it to 0%, but vatniks are a bunch of closet fags who talk big, won't do shit.
