Sweden warns of two gas leaks on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline | WKZO | All things Kalamazoo
By Anna Ringström and Stine Jacobsen
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s maritime authority said on Tuesday it had issued a warning about two leaks on the Russian-owned Nord Stream 1 pipeline in Swedish and Danish waters, shortly after a leak on the nearby Nord Stream 2 project was discovered.
“There are two leaks on Nord Stream 1 – one in the Swedish economic zone and one in the Danish economic zone. They are very close to each other, a spokesperson for the Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA) told Reuters.
The leaks were located northeast of the Danish island of Bornholm, the spokesperson said. It was not immediately clear what caused the leaks.
“We are keeping an extra watch to make sure no vessel comes too close to the site,” said a second SMA spokesperson.
On Monday, Danish authorities asked ships to avoid a radius of five nautical miles southeast off Bornholm after a gas leak from the decommissioned Nord Stream 2 pipeline drained into the Baltic Sea.
Later that day, the operator of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which ran at reduced capacity from mid-June before shutting down completely in August, also revealed a drop in pressure on both lines of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline.
The Baltic Pipe, a new underwater pipeline delivering Norwegian gas to Poland with an annual capacity of 10 billion cubic meters per day, is to be inaugurated later on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Anna Ringström and Stine Jacobsen, additional reporting by Gwladys Fouche, editing by Terje Solsvik, Kirsten Donovan)