As European consumers deal with soaring energy bills, Gazprom and Siemens Energy blame each other for the closure of the vital Nord Stream 1 pipeline
As winter comes closer, European leaders are facing a difficult question of how to keep their people warm amidst a sharp decline in natural gas supply from Russia, which has sent energy bills soaring.
“There’s no technical justification for why Gazprom cannot use the pipeline. And even if there were, it could send gas to Germany by other routes. It has chosen not to do so,” says John Lough, associate fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme at the UK-based think-tank Chatham House. To offset that dependence, EU has increased import of liquified natural gas from the US. But overall, LNG still meets a small part of the EU's gas requirement when compared with pipeline gas.
Besides Nord Stream 1, Russia supplies gas to Germany via the Yamal pipeline, which passes through Belarus and Poland. Other pipelines bring gas to Europe via Ukraine and Türkiye. For the last couple of months, Gazprom officials including the company's deputy chief executive Vitaly Markelov have pointed out many of the eight turbines at the compression plant have gone out of order one after another because they need repairs.
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