Nord Stream is a natural gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea. The pipeline is a key factor in securing energy security in Europe.

4 weeks ago - It comprises two separate projects, Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2. Each of the pipelines comprises two pipes, NS1 A and B as well as NS2 A and B, making a total of 4 physical pipes. Both pipelines start in Russia and land in Lubmin, Germany. NordStream is owned by a consortium of 5 energy companies: Gazprom international projects North 1 LLC (Gazprom Group company), Wintershall Dea AG, PEG Infrastruktur AG (E.ON), N.V.

Often missing from that discussion is how Nord Stream 1 changed gas flows—after all, the case against Nord Stream 2 mirrors arguments made a decade ago against Nord Stream. It is thus helpful to examine how Nord Stream affected German and European gas flows. The data from the International Energy Agency show that net imports into Germany did not change from 2010 to 2018 (Nord Stream came online in late 2011), so Nord Stream altered flows, not volumes.

1 week ago - On 2 September 2022, the company announced that natural gas supplies via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would remain shut off indefinitely until the main gas turbine at the Portovaya compressor station near St Petersburg was fixed due to an engine oil leak. Gazprom justified this by claiming that European Union sanctions against Russia had resulted in technical problems, preventing it from providing the full volume of contracted gas through the pipeline; Siemens Energy, which maintains the turbine, rejected this and stated that there are no legal obstacles to its provision of maintenance for the pipeline.

Nord Stream was built using 1,220-millimeter pipes. The pipeline’s outlet pressure at the Russia-based Portovaya CS was 220 bar (220 kilograms per square centimeter), while the outlet pressure at the landfall point in Germany was 106 bar.

July 27, 2022 - On Wednesday, physical flows via Nord Stream 1 tumbled to 14.4 million kilowatt hours per hour (kWh/h) between 1200-1300 GMT from around 28 million kWh/h a day earlier, already just 40% of normal capacity.

The twin pipelines together can transport a combined total of 110 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas a year to Europe for at least 50 years.

June 13, 2022 - The pipeline transports natural gas along the shortest supply route from the gas fields in the north of Russia to Europe, and ensures that industry, private households and public institutions get the energy and heating they need,” says Thilo ...

June 13, 2022 - What was merely an idea in the 1990s became reality on 8 November 2011: the first gas flowed across the Baltic Sea through the Nord Stream pipeline system from Vyborg in Russia to Lubmin on the Mecklenburg coast near Greifswald.

The Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline normally provides much of Europe’s energy but it was recently throttled.

July 10, 2022 - FRANKFURT, July 11 (Reuters) - Maintenance this month at the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to transport Siberian gas into Europe under the Baltic Sea is far from routine given the backdrop of war in Ukraine, western sanctions and Russian's actions ...

August 3, 2022 - MOSCOW, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Tension over giant turbines that Moscow blames for the reduction of flows via the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline has put the focus on the equipment it needs to operate. The crucial part is SGT-A65, a Siemens Energy (ENR1n.DE), opens new tab turbine that is 12 metres long, weighs 20 tonnes, and needs to be transported back to Gazprom's Nord Stream Portovaya compressor station following maintenance.

October 20, 2024 - The project, developed by a consortium that included Gazprom, Wintershall, and Shell, aimed to deliver natural gas directly from Russia to the European market. The first line of the pipeline was completed in 2011, enabling the transport of ...

Nord Stream is a natural gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea. The pipeline is a key factor in securing energy security in Europe.