“European gas prices rose by 12% after the Russian company Gazprom announced a reduction in gas imports via Nord Stream 1,” Bloomberg reported.

Earlier, the German government said, commenting on the decision of the Russian “Gazprom” to reduce the reduction in gas pumping to Germany to 20%, starting from Wednesday, in connection with the repair work in the Nord Stream strings, that “there is no any technical reason for the reduction in the pumping of Russian gas through the Severny gas pipeline flow”.

Gazprom indicated that it was forced to stop the operation of another gas turbine engine in the Nord Stream line at the Portovaya station, announcing “from Wednesday it will reduce gas supplies via Nord Stream to 33 million cubic meters per day.”

Prior to today’s decision by the company, the gas pipeline was operating at 40% (67 million cubic meters per day) of its maximum capacity due to problems with turbines for the Nord Stream 1 string, which runs from Canada through the German company Siemens. .