Russia will halt natural gas supplies to Europe for three days for unscheduled maintenance at the end of the month, piling pressure on the region as it seeks to refuel ahead of winter.
| Russia will halt natural gas supplies to Europe for three days at the end of the month via its main pipeline into the region, state energy giant Gazprom said on Friday, piling pressure on the region as it seeks to refuel ahead of winter.
“We are monitoring the situation closely with the Federal Network Agency,” a spokesperson for Germany’s economy ministry said. The Biden administration did not immediate respond to requests for comment.The shutdown, to run from August 31 to September 2, follows a 10-day maintenance curtailment in July, andUkraine’s gas transmission system operator said it and the Polish gas pipeline system have the capacity to compensate for the Nord Stream halt, and allow Russian gas to reach Europe.
The Nord Stream pipeline had already been running at just a fifth of its capacity, stoking fears that Russia could halt flows completely heading into the winter heating season and make it more difficult to fill up storage facilities. The restart volume would be just 20 per cent of Nord Stream’s full capacity of 167 million cubic metres daily.
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