The official version of the stop is scheduled maintenance work and “gas transportation will be temporarily suspended.”
Russian Gazprom will suspend supplies to the Power of Siberia gas pipeline from September 22 to 29, the company’s press service reports. Liga.Business writes about it.
Gazprom said planned maintenance work will be carried out during this period and “gas transportation will be temporarily suspended.”
The press service also clarified that preventive maintenance of equipment and gas pipeline systems is carried out twice a year: in spring and autumn. This follows an agreement between Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) on the purchase and sale of gas through the “eastern route”.
In the spring of this year, the planned work was carried out from March 29 to April 4. In 2021, the fall prevention was carried out in the last week of September.
The Power of Siberia is a gas pipeline that supplies gas from Yakutia to Primorye and China. In 2014, Gazprom and CNPC entered into a 30-year agreement under which Power of Siberia must supply 38 billion cubic meters. m of gas per year. In 2019, the gas pipeline was commissioned. In the first half of 2022, the amount of gas pumped into China by the Power of Siberia increased by 63%.
Earlier, Moldovan President Maia Sandu said that Russia may stop gas supplies to Moldova on October 1.
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