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Yamal pipeline compressor in Belarus (2006)
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There are significant declines in the gas flows from Russia to Germany.
According to data from the Association of European Transmission System Operators for Gas (Entsog), deliveries in several large pipelines have fallen significantly since Monday.
In the approximately 4,200-kilometer-long
Yamal pipeline
, which runs from the Siberian Yamal Peninsula to Germany, daily deliveries at the Belarusian-Polish border collapsed by Wednesday – from around 52 to around 23 million cubic meters.
In the approximately 1,200-kilometer-long
Nord Stream 1 pipeline
, which runs from Vyborg in Russia to Lubmin in Germany near Greifswald, daily deliveries fell from a good 171 to around 157 million cubic meters in the same period.
Daily gas flows from Russia to Europe via
Ukrainian pipelines
also fell – from around 94 to around 79 million cubic meters.
Entsog sometimes corrects its data with a two-day delay.
Therefore, only the values up to Wednesday are currently valid.
However, preliminary data for Thursday and Friday show that shipments continued to fall towards the end of the week.
Almost no gas arrives at the Yamal entry point on the Belarusian-Polish border.
As in January, the transport via them is almost completely at a standstill.
Deliveries through Nord Stream 1 have also continued to fall.
So far, the supply in Europe does not seem to be endangered.
The declines can be explained primarily by cost optimization of the gas wholesalers, it is said in the environment of Entsog.
Traders are currently buying less from the pipelines and instead using the storage facilities.
It's just plain cheaper.
So the demand for pipeline gas has fallen - not the supply.
The information cannot be verified.
The data on which trader calls up how much gas via the pipelines is not public.