Gas via Nord Stream 1 is scheduled to flow again from Saturday

Created: 2022-09-02Updated: 2022-09-02 14:38

Piping systems and shut-off devices in the gas receiving station of Nord Stream 1 and the long-distance gas pipeline OPAL (Baltic Sea Pipeline Link).

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For three days, Russia stopped gas flow through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline due to maintenance work.

It shouldn't be the last interruption.

But now the gas should come again.

Moscow/Lubmin - Gas deliveries through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline have been announced for Saturday morning after the end of a three-day delivery stop.

This emerges from preliminary data on the Nord Stream AG website.

Accordingly, gas deliveries are scheduled again from 2 a.m. on Saturday morning.

The volume corresponds to the deliveries before the interruption, i.e. around 20 percent of the maximum possible volume and thus 33 million cubic meters of natural gas daily.

However, the Kremlin in Moscow did not rule out further delivery interruptions.

The reservations - the so-called nominations - are advance information for gas network operators so that they can transport significant quantities.

Such nominations are subject to change until shortly before actual delivery.

The data published so far only show the time up to 6 a.m. on Saturday morning, since that is when a new gas day begins.

Since Wednesday morning, no gas has flowed through the last most important pipeline for Russian gas to Germany.

According to the Russian energy company Gazprom, the reason is maintenance work on a compressor station.

The company had announced that the delivery stop would last until September 2nd.

The head of the Federal Network Agency, Klaus Müller, had expressed doubts about the reasoning.

Gazprom also referred to technical reasons in connection with the throttling to a fifth of the maximum output.

The federal government, among others, had doubts about this.

The Russian energy giant Gazprom is not to blame for the fact that the reliability of the line through the Baltic Sea is at risk, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, according to the Interfax agency.

There are no technical reserves.

"Only one turbine is running," he said when asked by a journalist about possible further interruptions.

According to the state-owned company, the last remaining turbine in the compressor station has to be serviced every 1000 working hours.

The next stop should therefore be in mid-October.

Meanwhile, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants the EU to pay less for Russian gas given the dramatic rise in energy prices.

"I am firmly convinced that it is now time for a price cap on Russian pipeline gas to Europe." According to von der Leyens, such a gas price cap can be proposed at European level.

The EU Commission had previously advised against a price cap on the wholesale market within the EU as an emergency measure in a draft, as this could distort supply and demand.

Von der Leyen, on the other hand, is calling for a cap on gas import prices via pipelines from Russia.

This could also lead to lower prices in the EU.

However, there is a risk that Russia will stop supplying gas at the lower price.

Former Russian President and Deputy Head of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, threatened the EU with a supply freeze in the event of a price cap.

He wrote on the Telegram news channel: "It will be like oil.

There will simply be no Russian gas in Europe.” dpa