As the Russian quality newspaper “Kommersant” reported on Monday evening, citing its own sources, the Siemens Energy turbine at the Portovaya compressor station at the starting point of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline was transported from a workshop in repair in Canada to Germany. bring has been. With Germany as an intermediate station, the turbine is to be handed over to Russian state-owned company Gazprom in accordance with sanctions.
Then, according to the report, the turbine will be transported by ferry across the Baltic Sea and overland by truck via Helsinki, Finland to the launch site of the Baltic Sea Pipeline. The Portovaya compressor station is located in the Leningrad region, about 20 kilometers from the Finnish border. EU sanctions packages do not include a ban on supplying gas turbines to the Russian Federation, so there should be no transport difficulties, the Russian newspaper points out.
However, there may be delays during the customs process. The turbine could then probably arrive in Russia on July 24; installation could take another three to four days. At the beginning of August at the latest, Nord Stream 1 could again be ready to deliver gas in full to Europe.
Siemens Energy did not want to confirm or deny the information contained in the “Kommersant” report at the request of the Berliner Zeitung. A Siemens spokesperson said there was no comment on the location of the turbine. However, the objective remains the same: to transport the turbine to its place of use as quickly as possible.
The Nord Stream 1 has been in annual maintenance since July 11-21 and does not deliver gas to Europe at the moment. The amount of gas that will then be transported to Europe remains uncertain. On July 16, Gazprom again asked Siemens to deliver the repaired turbine in Canada to Russia as soon as possible so that Gazprom could ensure the continued operation of Nord Stream 1. On June 16, the group had already throttled gas flows to Europe via Nord Stream 1 at only 40% and explained the measurement with the missing turbine. The federal government, however, sees this for mainly political reasons.
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