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Nord Stream 2 unit for certification

is liquidated

GERMANY A subsidiary that the operator of Russia’s Nord authorities had made an appeal that if certified
Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany set up in order for operation, Nord Stream 2’s remaining func-
Certification was halted for the project to be certified under German tional string could have provided gas that Nord
because of events in law has been liquidated, news portal T-online Stream 1 was no longer capable of sending.
Ukraine. reported on January 20. The winding up of Gas for Europe applies ret-
According to T-online, the liquefaction of the roactively from January 1.
unit, called Gas for Europe GmbH, means that “The Bundesnetzagentur is not in touch
the project’s certification has been postponed with Gas for Europe,” a spokesperson for the
indefinitely. German energy regulator told Reuters. “It has
The 55bn cubic metre per year Nord Stream 2 no information about a dissolution of the com-
pipeline was completed in September 2021, but pany,” the representative said, while adding that
it never came into operation, as it first required a provisional debt restructuring moratorium
operational certification. Germany’s govern- had been granted to Nord Stream 2 AG, its Swiss
ment halted the certification process when parent company, until January 10. The ultimate
Moscow recognised the breakaway regions of owner of Nord Stream 2 is Russia’s state-owned
Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine as Gazprom.
independent on February 21, three days before All sides concluded that the damage to the
Russia launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine. Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines was very likely the
One of Nord Stream 2’s two strings was par- result of sabotage. Russia has blamed the West,
tially destroyed in September as a result of sus- without providing evidence, and has accused
pected sabotage, along with both strings of the Sweden and Denmark of preventing a transpar-
mostly parallel Nord Stream 1 pipeline. Russian ent investigation into the suspected blasts. ™

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