Since the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, energy trade between European countries and Russia has been damaged, but the two sides still have intermittent energy trade exchanges. After all, the "Beixi-1" and "Beixi-2" natural gas transportation pipelines are in a state of operation at any time, which also provides the basis for negotiations between Europe and Russia. As long as the pipeline for transporting natural gas is still there, Europe and Russia will still be able to reach an agreement.
But now all this has become impossible. According to the news released by the Swedish monitoring station, the natural gas transportation pipelines of "North Stream-1" and "North Stream-2" experienced strong underwater explosions at the same time, and at least 4 leak points were caused. More than 300 million cubic meters of liquefied natural gas that were originally stored in the pipeline have also leaked to the sea.
EU expressed high concern about this matter, and it is by no means a coincidence
This is definitely bad news for Europe, because they originally pointed out that after the negotiations with Russia resumed, they purchased a large amount of Russian natural gas through these two luck pipelines to reduce inflation and energy prices in Europe. However, with the destruction of these two pipelines, even if Europe and Russia resume cooperation at the political level, it will be difficult for Russia to continue to provide a large amount of natural gas to European countries for a while, which is equivalent to completely cutting off the possibility of negotiations between Europe and Russia.
After the incident, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Borelli also made a clear response to this, claiming that the EU expressed high concern about the matter, and energy security issues and environmental issues are issues that the EU attaches importance to. They believe that this pipeline explosion is definitely not a coincidence, which will affect all EU countries, and the EU will do its best to uncover the truth of the incident and take more powerful measures to ensure its ability to respond to energy security.
natural gas transportation pipeline is very important and is the lifeblood of Europe's energy
According to the public data released by Russian Natural Gas Co., Ltd., "Beixi-1" and "Beixi-2" are two natural gas transportation pipelines in parallel, with a total length of more than 1,000 kilometers. Russian energy companies will use this pipeline to send a large amount of liquefied natural gas through the territorial waters of countries such as Finland , Sweden , Denmark , and then transport it directly to Germany to European countries. Moreover, the total luck of these two pipelines will exceed 100 billion cubic meters. In short, this is itself the most important energy lifeline in Europe.
After the pipeline was destroyed, most European countries expressed their anger and dissatisfaction. Danish Prime Minister Frazier Rixson claimed at a press conference that they believed that this was by no means an accident, but that some countries were deliberately destroying the pipeline. European Commission President von der Leyen also responded similarly, claiming that if Europe's energy infrastructure is attacked by certain extraterritorial forces, the EU will definitely take strong measures to fight back.
Source: Beijing Daily
