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Gazprom logo at a gas station in the Russian capital Moscow
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The Russian gas company Gazprom is sending notices that it will supply gas to Germany again through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Saturday, as previously announced.
On Friday, delivery quantities as before the current delivery stop were reserved on the website of the operating company Nord Stream from 2 a.m. on Saturday morning.
This so-called nomination is advance information for gas network operators.
The data published on Friday initially only lasted until 6 a.m. on Saturday morning.
However, nominations are not binding.
Most recently, Russia had occasionally reserved higher volumes without actually delivering them.
Germany denies the need for maintenance
Gazprom stopped its deliveries to Germany through Nord Stream 1 again on Wednesday morning, according to its own statements due to scheduled maintenance work on a compressor station.
Until Wednesday, the Russian company sent around 33 million cubic meters of gas through the pipeline every day, which is around 20 percent of the possible delivery volume.
Gazprom cites the maintenance of a Siemens turbine as the reason for this reduction, which cannot be delivered to Russia because of Western sanctions.
The federal government and Siemens have repeatedly doubted that the maintenance work and delivery reductions carried out in recent months are actually necessary.
They assume that Russia is making gas shortages for political reasons.
The complete halt to deliveries was the second this summer and fueled fears of supply bottlenecks in winter.
The West accuses Moscow of extortion over the energy supply.
After Western sanctions were imposed on Moscow for invading Ukraine, Russia had repeatedly reduced its gas supplies to Europe.
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