The Nord Stream 2 operator now also wants to have the damage to the gas pipeline assessed from a ship. The manager of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which runs largely parallel and was also damaged, announced this last week.
“We plan to use a special vessel that can give us more information about the state of our systems,” Nord Stream 2 spokesman Ulrich Lissek told the Badische Neuste Nachrichten. However, chartering a ship can be difficult due to the sanctions against the company.
Last week, the manager of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which was also damaged, announced that it wanted to deploy a special ship. “We only registered a pressure drop in the A-tube. The pressure in the B-tube has remained normal. So it’s intact,” Lissek said.
The German government sees it differently: “It is very likely that the sabotage act with strong explosions had a negative effect on both pipeline strands and therefore basic technical availability is no longer given.” She also recalled that the pipeline has not received required certification and therefore cannot yet be commissioned. Berlin itself stopped the corresponding procedure shortly before the start of the war in Ukraine.
Four leaks detected
At the end of September, a total of four leaks in the two double strands were discovered after explosions near the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm. These run from Russia to Germany. Both EU and NATO representatives assume sabotage.
Source: Krone
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