The gas pipeline operator had announced this weekend the end of the leaks on Nord Stream 2, but the Swedish coast guard found on Monday that gas was escaping again from one of them.
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The Baltic Sea ordeal continues. Boiling caused by leaking gas has ceased over the damaged Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, but not Nord Stream 2, the Swedish coastguard announced on Monday (October 3rd) after a flyby of the two pipelines that were victims of suspected sabotage in the Baltic waters.
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The operator of the underwater gas pipelines linking Russia to Germany, Nord Stream AG, had however announced on Saturday the end of the leaks on Nord Stream 2, on the basis of insufficient pressure to escape from the gas pipeline. According to the Danish authorities, the leaks, in sharp decline, should stop around this weekend.
On the Swedish side, the main leak affected Nord Stream 1, while a smaller one concerned Nord Stream 2. This is the one that is still very active, said the coast guards in a press release. During an overflight carried out on Monday morning, they found that “the biggest leak was no longer visible but [que] the little one, on the other hand, had increased again”, with a diameter of bubbling at sea “about 30 meters”.