The three-day outage is related to maintenance at a compressor station in Russia.
Gas deliveries from Russia to Europe via the Nord Stream pipeline were again “entirelystopped on Wednesday August 31, according to data from the European gas transport network Entsog and a press release from Gazprom. The Russian gas giant had announced, Friday, August 26, this interruption which should last three days (from August 31 to September 2) and which is linked to work in a compressor station, located in Russia, of this gas pipeline which directly connects the Siberian gas fields in northern Germany, from where the gas is then exported to other European countries.
The works “planned on a gas compressor station have started“, said the Russian group in a statement posted on its Telegram account. This interruption comes the day after the announcement made by Gazprom of the shutdowncompletely» Gas deliveries to the French group Engie, which he accuses of not having paid the sums due for the said deliveries.