GRTgaz says it doesn’t know what caused the cut. However, the latter comes at a time when Gazprom has significantly reduced gas supplies to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline.
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Published on 06/17/2022 14:16
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The faucet was turned off. The manager of France’s gas transport network announced on Friday June 17 that it would no longer purchase Russian gas by pipeline since June 15 due to “the disruption of the physical flow between France and Germany”. Flows have already been reduced by 60% since the beginning of the year and this import point was already operating “at the beginning of 2022” with only 10% of its capacity, according to GRTgaz. For two days, the supply has dropped to zero.
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France gets around 17% of its gas from Russia, which can be delivered via gas pipelines or in liquid form from LNG tankers. The vast majority of imported gas normally came by pipeline via this single point of connection with Germany. GRTgaz says it doesn’t know what caused the cut. However, the latter comes at a time when Gazprom has significantly reduced gas supplies to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline.
France imports gas from other countries, including Spain, which recently increased supplies. According to GRTgaz, it has primarily increased its purchases of liquefied natural gas (LNG), which arrives in terminals near its technical maximum via LNG tankers.