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Denmark to permit conservation work on harmed Nord Stream 2 pipeline

Denmark's energy agency on Tuesday said it had actually approved Nord Stream 2 AG, a system of Russia's. Gazprom, consent to carry out preservation deal with. the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, which was. harmed in a series of blasts in 2022.

The upkeep work is necessary to decrease ecological. and security threats coming from the pipeline being filled with. seawater and staying gas, the agency stated in a. declaration.

The work intends to protect the damaged pipeline by. installing customised plugs at each of the open pipeline ends to. avoid even more gas blow-out and the intro of oxygenated. seawater, it said.

Nord Stream 2 AG completed the $11 billion pipeline task. in 2021 to pump gas from Russia to Germany. However Germany halted. the plan as relations with Moscow broke down ahead of Russia's. war in Ukraine, while the United States enforced sanctions.

In September 2022, among the 2 lines of the Nord Stream 2. pipeline was damaged by mysterious blasts, along with both lines. of Nord Stream 1. No one has taken responsibility for causing. the damage.

The damaged line of NS2 is approximated to still include. around 9-10 million cubic metres of gas, while. the intact line stays filled with gas, the Danish firm stated.

The United States in December

provided further sanctions

on the operator and other Russian entities stating it. thinks about Nord Stream 2 a Russian geopolitical task and. opposes efforts to revive it.

Both the United States and Ukraine have actually rejected having. anything to do with the attacks as has Russia. Moscow, without. offering evidence, has blamed Western sabotage for the blasts,. which mainly cut Russian gas off from the financially rewarding European. market.

(source: Reuters)