Calling them deliberate leaks is amusing given 500 kg TNT
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Amusing that they are calling this “deliberate leaks”.
Best estimates are that the equivalent of 500 kg of TNT was used to “activate” the “deliberate leaks”.
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“Natural gas supplies are set to be even tighter next year as the Nord Stream pipeline deals with an apparent act of sabotage, International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol said, adding that it’s “very obvious” who was behind the attempt to cripple the key piece of energy infrastructure.
Birol’s warning comes as Europe is facing a major energy supply crunch this winter, with Russian gas flows halted on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. That caused already-high natural gas prices to soar even higher, with Dutch TTF futures, the European benchmark for natural gas, surging 28.5% shortly after the halt.
Supplies came under new pressure this week after explosions occurred at both of the Nord Stream pipelines, which Denmark said was likely due to deliberate leaks made in both pipelines. Dutch TTF futures rose another 11% on Wednesday.
“It is not yet known who made it, who is behind this sabotage, there is still discussion more or less, but … it is very obvious … who was behind this issue,” Birol said at a Paris energy conference on Thursday, according to Reuters. …”