A Examination of satellite images taken by the Norwegian company Rystad Energy He points out that Russia could burn about 80 percent of the possible surplus each day. 4.3 million cubic meters of gas per day (approximately tenm euros) at a new liquefied gas plant near the Finnish border.
Images are captured a large flare at the border, also seen by Finnish residents, active since July 11th. Sindre Knutsson, Vice President, Gas Markets, Rystad Energy, According to Sky News, Russia “would have already burned enough gas to supply 1.5 million European homes”.
Again experts do not exclude that this combustion was part of the test procedures at the Portovay planta, we also believe that “the magnitude and duration of this continuous burning time is rather extreme” in simple tests.
This plant found northwest of Saint Petersburg and planned to be commissioned this year A compressor station for the ‘Nord Stream 1’ gas pipeline from Russia to Russia Germany.
supply Interrupted for 10 days during annual pipeline maintenance in July and has been running ever since, though the gas flow has been running at one-fifth of capacity.
“We do not know the exact cause of the fire, as we do not have any communication neither from Russia nor from (state operator) Gazprom. There are many possible causes, but we don’t know exactly what it is,” added Knutsson.