Gas crisis: Delivery volume throttled via Nord Stream 1 - compensation via other EU pipeline?

Created: 07/27/2022, 10:20 am

By: Patricia Huber

The gas delivery volume through Nord Stream 1 continues to decrease.

Meanwhile, concerns about a delivery stop are growing.

The latest information on the gas crisis in the news ticker.

• Gazprom

  is booking

  higher capacities

  : More gas will soon flow through the

  Slovakian

  Eugas pipeline.

• This news ticker on the gas crisis is constantly updated.

Update from July 27, 10:08 a.m .:

After corresponding announcements, the amount of Russian natural gas delivered via the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline fell on Wednesday morning.

This is the result of preliminary network data from the two connection points in Lubmin in Western Pomerania.

A good 17 million kilowatt hours arrived there between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.

Between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. there were more than 27 million.

The delivery volume is likely to continue to fall.

According to the Nord Stream 1 website, a good 14 million kilowatt hours per hour were announced for the rest of the day.

The Russian company Gazprom had announced that it would reduce the capacity utilization of Nord Stream 1 from 40 percent to 20 percent.

As a result of the great uncertainty, the prices for natural gas are also continuing to rise.

On Wednesday morning, the price for a megawatt hour of Dutch natural gas for delivery in August rose by around ten percent compared to the previous day to 224 euros.

The price refers to the TTF futures contract, which is used as a benchmark for gas price levels in Europe.

Gazprom books higher capacities: More gas is to flow through the Slovakia pipeline

First report from July 27, 9:51 a.m.:

Bratislava – According to the pipeline operator Eugas, the Russian energy company Gazprom booked significantly more capacity on the Transgas line through Slovakia on Wednesday than in the past few days.

In the Slovakian border town of Velké Kapuany, the starting point of the Slovakian section, the transmission of 68.6 million cubic meters of gas was announced.

The day before it was 36.8 million cubic meters.

The booking indicates that Gazprom will make up for lost gas supplies to Europe at Nord Stream 1 via the route through Slovakia.

Transgas is a pipeline that runs from Russia via Ukraine to Slovakia and to Austria and Germany.

The additional gas quantities nominated on Wednesday correspond approximately to the throttling through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which Gazprom justified with the repair of another turbine.

Booking additional capacity is not proof that Gazprom will actually send more gas.

However, there are other indications.

The operator of the Ukrainian pipeline section TSOU complained on Tuesday that the Russian gas giant had increased the pressure in the pipelines there without warning.

This suggests that Gazprom is pumping more gas.

However, this is contradicted by data from the Sudscha measuring station at the crossing between Russia and Ukraine.

The delivery quantities of 42.2 million cubic meters nominated there are practically at the level of the past few days.

The “Spiegel” also reported on the higher gas volumes booked by Slovakia.