A gas leak from the Russian-owned Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea is causing a danger to ship traffic, marine authorities have warned.
A ship in the Baltic Sea working on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in 2018 (Photo: Bernd Wuestneck/DPA via AP)
Ships have been warned to steer clear of a five nautical mile radius off the Danish island of Bornholm after a leak was detected on Monday evening. The cause was not immediately clear.
The German government said it was in contact with Danish authorities to find out what caused pressure in the pipeline to plummet suddenly.
Meanwhile, the operator of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, which ran at reduced capacity since mid-June before stopping altogether in August, also disclosed a pressure drop.
“Tonight, the dispatchers of the Nord Stream 1 control center registered a pressure drop on both strings of the gas pipeline. The reasons are being investigated,” Nord Stream AG said in a statement on its website on Monday. It did not give further information.
German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported that the pipelines may have been damaged by targeted attacks, citing an unnamed person familiar with the German government’s assessment.
“We can’t imagine a scenario that isn’t a targeted attack,” the source said. “Everything speaks against a coincidence.”
The newspaper reported that “forensic results” cannot be expected within a short time since the seabed has to be reached.
Nord Stream 2, which runs 764 miles from Russia through the Baltic Sea to Germany, was completed and filled with 300 million cubic metres of gas before the project was halted days before the invasion of Ukraine.
It has been one of the flashpoints in an escalating energy war between Europe and Russia that has pummelled major Western economies and sent gas prices soaring.
Klaus Mueller, president of the German network regulator Bundesnetzagentur, said on Twitter that the pressure drop in both pipelines “underscores the Bundesnetzagentur’s assessment that the situation is tense”.
The regulator said it was currently not known what had caused the pressure drop, adding that it had no impact on security of supply in Germany and that the country’s gas storage levels stood at about 91 per cent capacity.
Danish maritime authorities have issued a navigation warning and established a prohibition zone around the Nord Stream 2 pipeline “as it is dangerous for ship traffic”.
Sweden’s maritime authority issued a similar warning on Tuesday, saying the leak from Nord Stream 1 was also in its territorial waters.
“We are keeping extra watch to make sure no ship comes too close to the site,” a spokesperson said.
While the pressure inside the pipeline is normally 105 bar, it is now only seven bar on the German side, said Nord Stream 2 spokesman Ulrich Lissek.
The leak comes a day before the inauguration of a new pipeline, the Baltic Pipe, which will bring Norwegian gas through Denmark to Poland.
The project is a centrepiece of Warsaw’s efforts to diversify from Russian gas. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is due to travel to Poland on Tuesday to mark the occasion.
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Gatekeeper Gonzalo Lira has already ‘decided’, from his flat in Kharkiv, who is guilty of this supposed sabotage! As usual he is misleading his audience, nudging them towards fear.
He is so obviously an agent of the Black Nobility that it is painful to see how many people buy into his narratives. He claims that UK has no reason to sabotage Nordstream because it receives some gas from Russia. Less than 4% of our gas comes from Russia. The crippling of European energy sources would mean that Europe comes to BRITAIN & NORWAY for gas supplies and what does the British government want to force upon its citizens?
FRACKING.
Who has stealth subs very nearby?
THE BRITS.
Trident is so close by.... I am sick of people ignoring the threat from UK. The City of London Crown Corporation UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE BLACK NOBILITY TELLS the United States what to do and when it comes to a job like this, they make sure that it is done right..... by doing it themselves.
Didn’t we see THIS coming?
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UPDATE: REFERENDUMS + SABOTAGE OF NORDSTREAMS
https://youtu.be/iquGuWwH9l8
Sweden’s national seismic network has said it detected two explosions close to unusual leaks in two Russian natural gas pipelines running under the Baltic Sea to to Germany.
The network said it registered one blast early on Monday south east of the Danish island of Bornholm, and a slightly larger one later that night north east of the island.
It said the latter explosion was equivalent to a magnitude-2.3 earthquake.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/seismic-network-registers-two-explosions-near-russian-gas-pipeline-leaks-42021118.html