The news has already caused international gas prices to leap again and renewed fears of shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Russian government is being accused of using gas as a political weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is Nord Stream 1 and how much gas does it supply?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Nord Stream 1 pipeline stretches 1,200km under the Baltic Sea from the Russian coast near St Petersburg to north-eastern Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It has been open for 10 years and pipes a maximum of 170m cubic metres of gas per day from Russia to Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is owned and operated by Nord Stream AG, whose majority shareholder is the Russian state-owned company Gazprom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Germany imports 55% of its gas from Russia and most of it comes through Nord Stream 1 – with the rest coming from land-based pipelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Germany also agreed to the building of a parallel pipeline – Nord Stream 2 – but worked stopped shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BBC News:- Russia will be cutting the amount of the natural gas it sends to Europe by closing down a turbine on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. The news has already caused international gas prices to leap again and renewed fears of shortages. The Russian government is being accused of using gas as a political weapon. What is Nord Stream 1 and how much gas does it supply? The Nord Stream 1 pipeline stretches 1,200km under the Baltic Sea from the Russian coast near St Petersburg to north-eastern Germany. It has been open for 10 years and pipes a maximum… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25899,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25897\/revisions\/25899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Map](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/9745\/production\/_123352783_nord_streams_pipelinev3_640-nc.png\")
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