Gas Russia, Nord Stream: “Unprecedented damage to the plant”

“Unprecedented” damage to three offshore lines of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipeline systems. The network operator reported, adding that it is impossible to determine when the system’s functional capacity will be restored. According to the Danish and Swedish authorities, the Nord Stream pipelines linking Russia to Germany – out of service due to the war in Ukraine – were both suddenly hit by very rare and inexplicable losses in the Baltic Sea. Copenhagen immediately put its energy infrastructure on alert, while the Danish authorities also raised the level of supervision of their electricity and gas sector to the orange level, the second highest. Concrete measures to increase the safety of factories and plants will have to be implemented by companies in the sector. Read also German authorities have yet to comment. But according to a source close to the government, quoted by the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel, “everything goes against the hypothesis of a coincidence”. “We cannot imagine a scenario that is not a targeted attack,” the same source stressed. As with the leak detected the day before on Nord Stream 2, security measures have been taken. Navigation within a radius of 5 nautical miles (approximately 9 kilometers) and overflight within a radius of 1 kilometer around the location of the leak is prohibited. According to the authorities, the accidents have no consequences for the safety or health of residents of the neighboring Danish islands of Bornholm and Christianso. Furthermore, the country’s energy supply is not involved. NEW PIPELINE INAUGURATED TO BRING GAS FROM NORWAY TO POLAND The Polish and Danish prime ministers attend the opening ceremony of the ‘Baltic Pipe’, the new pipeline that will open a new connection for Norwegian gas to Europe. The ceremony takes place at the Goleniow gas compression station in northwestern Poland. Poland spearheaded the project to replace gas from Russia, its main traditional supplier. Gazprom stopped supplying Poland in April. Not only will Warsaw benefit from Norwegian gas for the first time through the pipeline that will cross Denmark, but countries south of Poland, including Slovakia and the Czech Republic, will also be able to be supplied. reach its full capacity by the end of November.