Re:Nord Stream: Tie-ins and hyperbaric welding
by DangerousPie on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @05:24AM
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But those trades were already shut down and not coming back anytime soon. If Germany had refused to join sanctions and was still using NS1 + NS2 at full capacity right now then maybe there would have been some motivation to force the issue. But why now, when the pipelines weren't even active?
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Re:Nord Stream: Tie-ins and hyperbaric welding
by pbak on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @10:47AM
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You are analyzing this too much in the short term. These pipelines were meant to last for decades.
The pain of seeing a quarter of your industry close for lack of energy might have easily bent the will of Germans and others after this winter. All political announcements about replacing Russian gas before 2027 at the earliest were a pipe dream (pun intended)for anybody with any actual knowledge of the industry.
Even now, a large portion of what was supposedly bought elsewhere was just repackaged and re-originated at the port of loading, but actually Russian gas - hence part of the price hike going to a chain of middlemen.
Re:Nord Stream: Tie-ins and hyperbaric welding
by theironhammer on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @12:57PM
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AfD were hinting at reviving it. That would possibly be a popular proposal with the German public after this winter. Might get them a lot of votes.
Blowing it up guarantees Nordstream is forever dead.
The same day a new pipeline was announced as open from Norway to Poland.
Didn't a Polish EU MP tweet "Thank-you USA" when the news broke of the explosions.