Berlin Expects Gas Flows To Resume After Pipeline Maintenance Work—The German government expects Russian gas flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to resume after routine maintenance work is completed.
Deputy government spokesperson Christiane Hoffmann said gas flows would resume on Thursday as scheduled and in line with Russian state-owned energy company Gazprom’s contractual obligations.
Hoffmann declined to comment on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent warning that gas deliveries could fall to 33 million cubic metres per day if a repaired turbine is not quickly delivered.
The spokesperson reiterated that the missing turbine was a pretext to reduce gas flows, but the deployment of a replacement turbine was nonetheless underway.
Nord Stream is a pair of offshore natural gas pipeline sets in Europe that run under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany.
It includes the two Nord Stream 1 pipelines running from Vyborg in northwestern Russia, near Finland, and the two Nord Stream 2 pipelines running from Ust-Luga in northwestern Russia, near Estonia.
Both sets of pipelines run to Lubmin in the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Nord Stream 2 has been denied certification as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The name “Nord Stream” occasionally refers to a wider pipeline network, including the feeding onshore pipeline in Russia, and further connections in Western Europe
