Data from the operator’s website showed that gas had returned to flow on Thursday after the pipeline was shut down for 10 days for scheduled maintenance. Many had feared that Russia would not resume deliveries once the work was done.
Thursday’s reading showed that 21,388,236 kWh/h of gas was sent through Nord Stream 1 between 1 a.m. ET and 2 a.m. ET, well below Nord Stream 1’s full capacity.
“We are in the process of resuming gas transport through the pipeline. It may take some time to reach the nominated transport volume,” a Nord Stream 1 spokesperson told DailyExpertNews on Thursday.
Klaus Mueller, head of Germany’s network regulator, said on Twitter on Wednesday that Russia’s Gazprom had scheduled deliveries of only about 30% of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline’s capacity on Thursday. Before the pipeline was closed, Gazprom supplied only 40% of its full capacity, following a dispute over repairs to a major gas turbine.
— DailyExpertNews’s Yong Xiong and Nadine Schmidt contributed to this report