Denmark to allow preservation work on damaged Nord Stream 2 pipeline
- Nord Stream 2 allowed to preserve damaged pipeline
- Preservation needed to reduce environment, safety risks
- Gas remains in pipe damaged in 2022 blasts
HELSINKI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Denmark's energy agency on Tuesday said it had granted Nord Stream 2 AG, a unit of Russia's Gazprom , permission to conduct preservation work on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, which was damaged in a series of blasts in 2022.
The maintenance work is necessary to reduce environmental and safety risks stemming from the pipeline being filled with seawater and remaining natural gas, the agency said in a statement.
"The work aims to preserve the damaged pipeline by installing customised plugs at each of the open pipe ends to prevent further gas blow-out and the introduction of oxygenated seawater," it said.
Nord Stream 2 AG the $11 billion pipeline project in 2021 to pump gas from Russia to Germany. But Germany the plan as relations with Moscow broke down ahead of Russia's war in Ukraine, while the United States imposed .
In September 2022, one of the two lines of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline 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 estimated to still contain approximately 9-10 million cubic metres of natural gas, while the intact line remains filled with gas, the Danish agency said.
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