Many European countries are highly dependent on Russia's energy supply, but since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the EU has followed the footsteps of the United States and has continued to impose sanctions on Russia, which has intensified its own energy shortage.
On August 3, local time, Gazprom said that sanctions against Russia by Canada, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, as well as Siemens’ failure to fulfill the contract, caused the “Nord Stream-1” gas pipeline turbine to be stranded in Germany.
The lack of equipment has become the main reason for Russia's reduction of natural gas supplies.
On the same day, German Chancellor Scholz visited Siemens and inspected the Nord Stream-1 gas pipeline turbine stored there.
The turbines are already ready to be delivered to Russia, he said.
Earlier, the CEO of Siemens had said that the company had met all the conditions for sending the turbines back to Russia, and that the lack of relevant documents on the Russian side caused the delivery to be delayed.
The "North Stream-1" turbine was previously sent to Canada by the manufacturer, Siemens, for maintenance.
The turbine was detained while it was being repaired in Canada due to sanctions.
After the good offices of the German government, it was transported to Germany on July 18.
Since then, Germany and Russia have disagreed on the delivery of the turbine.
Gazprom has repeatedly stated that due to Siemens' failure to deliver the turbines for repair to Russia in time, the Russian side had to reduce the "Beixi-1" gas transmission volume.
At present, the gas transmission volume of "Beixi-1" is only 20% of full load.
(Making Yueziyan)
Responsible editor: [Ji Xiang]