The German company Siemens is to repair a defect in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. Until then, gas from Russia will not flow to Europe via pipelines at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Reuters was told this by the second man of the Russian mining giant Gazprom.
Siemens is in charge of Nord Stream 1
Vitaly Markelov, Gazprom’s deputy chief executive, told Reuters that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline was in the hands of Siemens. Markelov said it was the German technology company that was supposed to fix a fault in the equipment that pumps about a third of Russia’s total gas exports to the European Union.
Nord Stream 1 will not start flowing until the West lifts sanctions
“You have to ask Siemens. They have to fix it,” Markelov told Reuters when asked when the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would be operational again. “We do not understand this new presentation of the situation. Our facilities do not show any technical reason why the pipeline should not work,” Siemens said in a written statement to Reuters.
The Nord Stream 1 pipeline was shut down last week. The official reason was the repair of another turbine and the operation was to be resumed during Saturday morning. But this has not happened and the Russian side has also said that until the West lifts the sanctions, no gas will flow through Nord Stream 1.
