Russia is reducing gas supplies to Germany via the Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic Sea by a good 40 percent.
The energy company Gazprom announced on Tuesday in the Telegram messenger service that only 100 million cubic meters of gas per day can be guaranteed instead of the usual 167 million cubic meters.
The background is therefore problems with components from the German Siemens group.
The state-owned company called delays in repair work.
A gas compressor unit was not returned in time from repairs.
As a result, only up to 100 million cubic meters of gas could be pumped through the pipeline every day, or around 60 percent of the previously planned daily volume of 167 million cubic meters of gas, it said.
The Nord Stream pipeline, commissioned in 2011, is the highest-capacity gas pipeline between Russia and Germany.
It runs from Vyborg in Russia northwest of St. Petersburg to Lubmin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
According to the operating company, 59.2 billion cubic meters of natural gas were exported from Russia to Europe through the pipeline in 2021.
Unlike the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, it was inaugurated before the Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine and the occupation of Crimea.
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