Gas deliveries through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline have been announced for Saturday after the end of a three-day supply freeze. This is according to preliminary data on the Nord Stream AG website. Under this arrangement, gas deliveries are again scheduled from Saturday at 2 a.m. The volume corresponds to the deliveries before the interruption, ie about 20 percent of the maximum possible volume and thus 33 million cubic meters of natural gas per day.
The reservations – the so-called nominations – are pre-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 shows the time until 6 a.m. on Saturday, when a new gas day begins.
Gas has stopped flowing through the last main pipeline for Russian gas to Germany since Wednesday morning. According to the Russian energy company Gazprom, the reason is maintenance work on a compressor station. The company had announced that the delivery freeze would last until September 2.
Germany doubts the justification
The head of the Federal Network Agency, Klaus Müller, had expressed doubts about the reason for the supply stop. Gazprom also referred to technical reasons for throttling to one-fifth of maximum power. Doubts about this came from, among others, the German government.
After the attack on Ukraine and the resulting sanctions from the West, Moscow has halted or even stopped gas supplies to several countries.
Source: Krone
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