“We always prepare for the engine overhaul plan in advance, there is a so-called exchange fund of engines that have undergone a major overhaul at the Siemens plant,” he told Russia 24 on air.
According to him, they are put in place of engines that have worked a full cycle, that is, 25 thousand hours.
“And before the introduction of anti-Russian sanctions, we had no problems getting repaired replacement engines,” RIA Novosti quotes Markelov.
Earlier, Gazprom reported that they were stopping the operation of another Siemens gas turbine engine at the Portovaya CS.