{"id":1625385,"date":"2022-08-29T09:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625385"},"modified":"2022-08-29T09:06:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:06:26","slug":"russia-flaring-10-million-worth-of-natural-gas-per-day-instead-of-sending-it-to-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-flaring-10-million-worth-of-natural-gas-per-day-instead-of-sending-it-to-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Flaring $10 Million Worth of Natural Gas Per Day Instead of Sending It to Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-flaring-10-million-worth-of-natural-gas-per-day-instead-of-sending-it-to-germany%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625385&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>As Germany struggles to store enough natural gas to get it though the coming winter, Russia has cut the flow of gas through the Nord Stream I pipeline several times. As of the end of July, the pipeline was only transporting <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/john-s-2\/2022\/07\/25\/russia-cuts-flow-of-gas-to-germany-once-again-n485110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about 20%<\/a> of the supply Russia had agreed to in contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has claimed the decision to stop transporting gas is purely the result of technical problems and required maintenance but Germany has been clear from the start that it\u2019s not buying that excuse. \u201cBased on our information there is no technical reason for a reduction in deliveries,\u201d Germany\u2019s economic minister said last month.<\/p>\n<p>So what happened to all of the gas that Russia stopped sending to Germany? Well, some of it is being flared off near the start of the Nord Stream I pipeline along the border with Finland. Estimates suggest Russia is just burning $10 million per day worth of natural gas possibly just to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-62652133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">send a message<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As Europe\u2019s energy costs skyrocket, Russia is burning off large amounts of natural gas, according to analysis shared with BBC News.<\/p>\n<p>They say the plant, near the border with Finland, is burning an estimated $10m (\u00a38.4m) worth of gas every day.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the gas would previously have been exported to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s ambassador to the UK told BBC News that Russia was burning the gas because \u201cthey couldn\u2019t sell it elsewhere\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The first signs that something was awry came from Finnish citizens over the nearby border who spotted a large flame on the horizon earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The flaring is taking place at a Liquified Natural Gas terminal near the start of the Nord Stream pipeline. Flaring is a normal operation at natural gas facilities but the size and duration of this flaring makes it very unusual.\u00a0CNN spoke to a firm that specializes in gas flaring and they said it was \u201cmost likely\u201d Russia was having some kind of technical problem, though they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/26\/energy\/russia-burning-natural-gas\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">didn\u2019t sound very convinced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mark Davis, CEO of Capterio, a firm advising energy companies on how to flare their gas, said that the practice is commonplace across Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s most likely an operational issue that operator Gazprom is struggling with,\u201d he told CNN Business. One explanation could be the failure of equipment.<\/p>\n<p>But the location raises questions. Gazprom will likely have transported the gas over a large distance from the Yamal gas field to the Portovaya plant, Rystad said, when it could have been flared closer to the source.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cost of compression and transporting gas from the Yamal field to the Baltic Sea is also likely to create unnecessary losses for Gazprom,\u201d it said\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Russia] may be making a political point, trying to say [to Europe] \u2018look we\u2019ve got this gas, and we\u2019re flaring it, you\u2019re choosing to make it difficult for us to get it to market,&#8217;\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Given that Russia has been lying about technical problems for months now, the claim that this is another technical problem seems unlikely, especially since they\u2019re making a point of flaring this gas near the border where it can be seen rather than where it was produced. Putin is sending a message that he\u2019d rather burn the gas off into the air than deliver it as promised. This is a big, glowing middle finger to the Germans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Germany struggles to store enough natural gas to get it though the coming winter, Russia has cut the flow of gas through the Nord Stream I pipeline several times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1625390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1625390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}