Germany: No Russian natural gas existing reserves can be maintained for one to two months

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 5th. Claus Mueller, director of the Federal Network Bureau of Germany, said on the 4th that if Germany loses Russia's natural gas supply and will not encounter abnormal cold this winter, Germany's existing natural gas reserves can be maintained at that time By two months.

Mueller made the above statement in an interview with the German Fengke Media Group.

This is the Berlin Brandonburg Gate in Berlin, Germany on May 25. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ren Pengfei

Mueller had previously posted on social media, saying that the "Beixi-1" natural gas pipeline will close the annual routine maintenance in July, which means that Russia's gas supply will be suspended.

According to data released by the German Ministry of Economic and Climate Protection on the 1st of this month, German natural gas inventory is about 61%of its gas storage capacity.

Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, the European Union has imposed six rounds of sanctions on Russia, none of them involved Russia's natural gas. The EU Council approved a provision on the 27th that the natural gas inventory of member states reached at least 80%of its gas storage capacity before this winter, and reached 90%before the next winter, and the natural gas can be shared between member states.

This is the "Beixi" natural gas pipeline terminal shot in the northern German city of Rubu on November 7, 2011. Xinhua News Agency (picture of Beixi Company)

The "Beixi-1" natural gas pipeline built in 2011 starts from Russia Veori in the east. It leads to Germany via the Baltic sea seas. It is the main channel for Russia's gas pipeline to Europe. In recent years, it has been in a state of overloading. In mid-June, Russia's Natural Gas Industry Co., Ltd. (Russian Qi) said that because Germany Siemens did not timely deliver the gas compression unit to Russia, Russian gas was forced to reduce the gas pipeline transmission of natural gas pipelines "Beixi-1" gas pipelines. Essence According to Siemens, the influence of Canada's sanctions on Russia, Siemens could not return the equipment to Russia. A spokesman for the German Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection said on the 4th that Germany was negotiating with the Canadian and European Commission on the relevant situation of Siemens equipment in Canada.

In addition, a spokesman for the German Ministry of Economic and Climate Protection also said that the "Beixi-2" gas transmission project was still left in the pipeline after being suspended, because the pipeline failed to be certified.

"Beixi-2" is a natural gas pipeline that bypasses Ukraine from Russia and directly to Germany through the Baltic Sea. From evaluation to the completion of the laying up for more than 10 years, a total of $ 11 billion is costly. State -owned enterprises jointly contributed. Affected by the changes in the situation in Russia and Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Tumz announced on February 22 that the "Beixi-2" natural gas pipeline project certification procedure was suspended. (Chen Lixi)

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