Energy crisis: Turbine for Nord Stream 1 still in Germany - radio silence in Russia
Created: 08/08/2022Updated: 08/08/2022 11:52 am
By: Tobias Utz, Teresa Toth, Nail Akkoyun
Germany's energy partnership with Qatar is apparently failing.
The turbine for Nord Stream 1 is still in Germany: the energy crisis in the news ticker.
Update from Monday, August 8, 11:45 a.m .:
The turbine of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, which was serviced in Canada, is still in Germany.
Recently there has been increased confusion about the whereabouts.
There are still pending discussions as to whether it can be shipped, said Siemens Energy boss Christian Bruch on Monday.
However, one is dependent on information from Russia, he emphasized.
Since June 2022, Russia has cut back gas supplies via Nord Stream 1.
The turbine for the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline is still in Germany.
© Bernd Thissen / dpa
Update from Sunday, August 7, 10:12 a.m .:
While energy prices for consumers are increasing, energy companies are benefiting from the high prices caused by the Ukraine war.
More and more people are therefore calling for an excess profit tax, through which excessive crisis profits from companies can be skimmed off.
The President of the Federation of German Industries, Siegfried Russwurm, clearly rejects this proposal.
The bureaucracy is much too high and profits are heavily taxed anyway.
"It would be wiser to address the state causes of high prices," says Russwurm.
Energy crisis: Habeck's energy partnership with Qatar has burst
Update from Saturday, August 6th, 4:25 p.m .:
The gas deal with Qatar has burst.
In March, Green Party leader Robert Habeck traveled to Doha to talk to the sheikhs there about an energy partnership. Initially, it said it had been successful: "It's great" that an energy partnership had been firmly agreed, Habeck announced after his trip.
However, the gas deal with Qatar is said to have collapsed, reports
Merkur
.
"The Qataris decided not to make a good offer," the economy minister reportedly said on his summer tour.
"And the companies I was there with at the time were getting gas elsewhere at the moment." The Federal Ministry of Economics has neither commented nor confirmed Habeck's statements.
It is also unclear how long Habeck has known that the deal has collapsed.
According to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the federal government is currently in contact with numerous countries that could temporarily supply gas or hydrogen.
These include Norway, Canada and the USA.
The filling level of the German natural gas storage facilities is currently slightly more than 70 percent.
Energy crisis: Gazprom flares off gas at the Nord Stream 1 pipeline
St. Petersburg – While Russia continues to strictly claim that the repaired Siemens turbine cannot be used and that less gas can therefore be delivered to Germany, photos of a Gazprom site now suggest otherwise: Apparently the gas giant is deliberately burning parts of the gas, which is actually to be delivered to the Federal Republic, at the turbine stations near Saint Petersburg.
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This is shown by photos published by the Finnish news
site Yle
, which are now circulating on Twitter.
welt.de
also
reports on the recordings.
A photo, which is said to have been taken by the Finnish side, shows a meter-high jet of flame that could be seen from miles away.
The authenticity of the recordings cannot currently be verified, but data from NASA also support the theory: data from the US Federal Agency for Space and Flight Science show that larger fires can regularly be seen on the site of the Nord Stream 1 station - However, only since Gazprom's delivery volumes for Germany were throttled.
(nak/tt/tu with dpa/AFP)