Nord Stream 1: As much gas as registered before maintenance

Created: 2022-07-21Updated: 2022-07-21 05:58

Piping systems and shut-off devices in Nord Stream 1 gas receiving station and OPAL transfer station.

© Stefan Sauer/dpa

According to preliminary figures from the operating company, gas deliveries via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline are about as large as before their maintenance.

A little less than 30 million kilowatt hours per hour have been announced, which means around 700 gigawatt hours per day.

This is based on preliminary information that was published on the Nord Stream AG website on Thursday night (as of March 3, 2020).

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The announced quantity is roughly the same as before routine maintenance began, which was scheduled to end Thursday, when the pipeline was running at about 40 percent capacity.

The information is subject to change.

The data available so far are preliminary announcements, so-called nominations.

Although these are important for network operators to ensure gas transport, they can still be changed, i.e. renominated, until shortly before the actual deliveries.

According to the head of the Federal Network Agency, Klaus Müller, this was already the case on Wednesday when other network operators had published figures.

Müller wrote on Twitter in the evening that the Russian state-owned company Gazprom had renominated and reduced the previously registered amount to 530 gigawatt hours on the first day, which corresponds to around 30 percent capacity utilization.

According to him, 800 gigawatt hours had previously been promised.

dpa