Nord Stream 1: Gas supply through Baltic Sea pipeline suspended again

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Gas has once again stopped flowing through Nord Stream 1. As announced, gas delivery via the Baltic Sea pipeline was stopped early Wednesday morning. According to the Nord Stream AG website, no significant volume flowed in the hour from 3 to 4 a.m. on Wednesday morning (31.08.2022). The volume had already dropped in the previous hour.

The state-owned company Gazprom had announced that deliveries via the most important route to Germany for Russian gas would be temporarily suspended due to maintenance work. Accordingly, deliveries are to be resumed early on Saturday morning.

Müller: Maintenance of Nord Stream 1 technically incomprehensible

The head of the Federal Network Agency, Klaus Müller, had said that the maintenance work was technically incomprehensible. Most recently, only about 20 per cent of the maximum possible volume came through the pipeline. According to Gazprom, there are also technical reasons for this, which the Federal Government, among others, doubts. Most recently, it had been said that 33 million cubic metres of natural gas were to be delivered daily again after the work was completed. This would correspond to the 20 per cent of the daily maximum output to which Russia had already reduced the delivery a few weeks ago.

Gas deliveries through Nord Stream 1 had already been suspended for several days in July - at that time, however, due to annual maintenance work that Nord Stream AG, as the operating company, had announced in the long term.

Last week it was reported that a lot of gas is currently being burnt near the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. The British BBC, among others, had reported on this and calculated that the value of the light, soot, heat and CO₂ emitted there amounts to around 10 million euros per day.

Despite Nord Stream 1: Germany fills gas storage facilities

While gas deliveries from Russia have tended to fall in recent months – or see Nord Stream 1 – at times stopped altogether, Germany nevertheless seems to be well on the way to being able to fill its gas storage facilities until autumn and winter. At the beginning of the week, the fill level was already so high that it could meet the October quorum in September.

(tkn)