The gas leak continues from the north stream 2. According to statements by some European law firms, which were also confirmed on Monday Gazprom whereby fossil fuel losses from pipelines fall under a alleged sabotage were finished, the Swedish Coast Guard He stated that according to the latest surveys on the never-operated parallel canal that connects the Russia In the Germany The bug not only hasn’t stopped losing, it actually is enlarged. After flying over the leak sites on Monday morning, the Nord Stream 1 leak was no longer visible and therefore it was concluded that the gas leak had ended. However, “the smaller one from Nord Stream 2 is a little bigger than yesterday” and measures about 30 meters in diameter, said the Coast Guard. Version which, as mentioned, is in contrast to the version provided by Gazprom a few hours earlier. Namely, the Russian energy giant stated that “the pressure in pipeline A of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and in both pipelines of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline has stabilized after the pauses that stopped gas leaks”.
The situation therefore remains critical and this affects the fuel prices. Despite the price Amsterdam Stock Exchange stabilizes during the day 170 euros per megawatt hourwith TTF falling more than 9% to end-July levels, French finance minister said Bruno Le Mairearriving at the Eurogroup, explained that “the rise in fossil fuel prices is structural, there is no turning back“And that” applies to gas and also to oil. The latest information fromOPEC on the price of oil are worrying. That’s why we mustn’t think for a second that there will be a trend reversal in fossil energy prices, that won’t happen.” While Farnesina announces that during the meeting with the Russian Ambassador in Rome Sergei Razov“There was no talk of sabotage at Nord Stream,” Gazprom He said that “world gas demand fell by 40 billion cubic meters in the last 9 months to 30 billion cubic meters, with the 27 EU countries accounting for 75%”. The company adds that the average daily export in September fell 30% month-on-month to 157 million cubic meters.
Italy is trying to take cover for this reason Eniwith the CEO Claudio Descalziannounces that it is currently examining whether “either the airline or the unpaid Gazprom could be taken over 20 million euros guarantee to the carrier who has to collect the gasAustria to Italy”, after the interruption of deliveries in Austria coming from Russia and destined for Italy, which has been going on since Saturday. The manager indicated that the block “Absolutely not for geopolitical reasons” but that Gazprom “had to pay a money guarantee for the gas passage to the Austrian forwarder who brings the gas to Italy and who was not there before”. “It’s becoming difficult to believe that a company that wants to pay in rubles can guarantee a passage in euros,” continued Descalzi, hoping “to be able to solve this problem within this week”, specifying that “we over 20 million guarantees of billions of euros in gas that happen. Let’s see if we can take over and make that effort, that could have been avoided.
Meanwhile, the EU is postponing the informal summit of heads of state and government at least until after Prague the Commission’s Energy Action Plan. The presentation of the plan was scheduled for tomorrow, when the College of European Commissioners will meet, but the spokesman for the Berlaymont Palace Dana Spinant he said that”the item is not on the agenda. On Friday the dossier will be the focus of the informal European Council, after which we can quickly move on to continue our work on energy prices”. “We will listen to member countries and act in the appropriate way and at the right time,” added another EU spokesman. Tim McPhie.
Originally, the Commission had planned to present a non-paper (unofficial document) to the Energy Council on Friday before presenting the proposal for an action plan on Tuesday. The deep gulf between the EU countries on the Upper limit for the gas price However, times have slowed and last week’s meeting of energy ministers confirmed there was no agreement on the Commission’s non-paper. For tomorrow Ursula von der Leyen will be a… Paris for meeting Emmanuel Macron who in turn will meet the German Chancellor this evening Olaf Scholz. With the Germany which is currently one of the main opponents of the gas price cap.
Europe’s priority is to move in a compact way, without hesitation or jumps by individual member states. “It is important that we get the terms of fair competition in the EU. We must act according to a Principle of solidarity and coordination between States Europeans” or there is a risk of “fragmentation” of the Union, said Le Maire. “In our coordinated response, we must defend the integrity of the single market, which must not be compromised,” he stressed, adding “We have to be quicker in our decisions“And” it was time to “also decide on the reform of the electricity market”:We need to decouple gas prices and electricity prices quickly to have an electricity price that is more reasonable for our businesses and our economies”.
However, for the European Union it is necessary to think of gods consumption containment plans to avoid an energy crisis in the middle of winter. The gas saving measures will “Central” to keep stocks adequate in the event of a full disruption to Russian gas and a “late cold spell,” the saidInternational Energy Agency (IEA) in its quarterly report. In order to avoid importing Russian gas, Europe has continued to buy gas on a massive scale liquefied natural gas (Gnl) and di Norwegian petrol. Thanks to this diversification strategy, “gas reserves were at 90% at the end of September”.