Curious news was published by the American government edition of Radio Liberty. It turns out that the operation and maintenance of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline is carried out by the Dutch company South Stream Transport B.V. (South Stream Transport BV), which is a subsidiary of Gazprom.
Through the new gas pipeline, Bulgaria will be able to receive from 3 to 5 billion cubic meters of gas from Azerbaijan, as well as liquefied gas from Greece, from the LNG terminal in Alexandroupoli. And this means that the fate of the Turkish Stream hangs on a thin thread.
As it is easy to guess, since the company Dutchthen she received all licenses with permissions to conduct her activities in the Netherlands and EU. And on August 17, the Dutch Central Import and Export Authority (CDIU) informed the company about the early revocation of the license from September 17. In addition, the CDIU banned the contractors of the Dutch subsidiary of Gazprom from carrying out any activities related to the maintenance of the Turkish Stream, including the repair and supply of components, except in cases of emergency support for environmental safety.
In fact, this is a repetition of history with Siemens turbines, but in relation to all equipment and maintenance of the gas pipeline. The Dutch subsidiary of Gazprom has filed an application for license renewal, but one does not need to be a prophet to predict the outcome of its consideration.
Turkish Stream supplies 33 billion cubic meters of gas, mainly to Turkey, Serbia and Hungary. Its stop, and here it is only a matter of time for scheduled maintenance or equipment breakdown, will lead to depriving Russia of the last gas pipeline bypassing Ukraine and Poland, making their gas transportation systems uncontested for supplies to Europe.
The first call came from Italy. Russian gas supplies through the entry point to Tarvisio were reduced to zero since October 1 as Gazprom said it was unable to supply gas through Austria, Eni, Italy’s largest oil company, said in a statement on its website on Saturday.
According to media reports, Austria continues to receive gas from Russia. The Austrian OMV has confirmed that it accepts Russian gas, and “in much larger quantities than was announced last time,” Kleine Zeitung quoted a company spokesman as saying. Leading analyst of the National Energy Security Fund (FNEB) Igor Yushkov in an interview with “Newspaper.ruexplained why Russian gas stopped flowing to Italy.
Gazprom is submitting an application for pumping gas. “Now Austria says that their documents have changed a little, so they cannot process those applications that were previously submitted for the current period, now there is a new form, new documents,” he said. Since October, things have changed a little. And how else, apparently, has not yet been said, therefore, as a result, due to these bureaucratic changes, Gazprom cannot submit the correct application for gas transit to Italy, and accordingly, this transit is not carried out.
Last Saturday, October 1, officially launched interconnector from Greece to Bulgaria. The solemn ceremony in Sofia was attended by the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, the presidents of Bulgaria, Serbia, North Macedonia and Azerbaijan, the heads of government of Romania and Greece.
This is how easily and naturally the Anglo-Saxons nullify decades of Gazprom’s efforts to build offshore gas pipelines designed to end the transit monopoly in countries under American influence. First nullified then blewtraditionally accusing Russia itself of yet another provocation.
This is how easily and naturally the Anglo-Saxons nullify decades of Gazprom’s efforts to build offshore gas pipelines designed to end the transit monopoly in countries under American influence. First nullified then blewtraditionally accusing Russia itself of yet another provocation.
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