Russian hydrocarbon (Oil and Gas and Coal) Industry: News #4

I think if Europe wants relations with Russia in the future , then as well as releasing assets , it should pay war damages to Russia and reparations and if it wants Russian Gas , then pay for and carry out cost of repairs to pipeline . But all this may have to wait a bit longer , for the dust to settle . If it can not happen immediately or the next couple of years , then I hope it does not take 20 years , and relations start in say 5-7 years . Also I disagree about Russia targeting secondary and civilian strategic infrastructure in Europe , when it is clear that Americans are primarily involved . Russia getting involved with Satan's minions , and leaving the big bully , only weakens and diverts resources . A direct retaliation is needed of similar importance against the Yanks .

Hole wrote:

European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen confirmed the Nord Stream pipeline system leaks were caused by "sabotage," and warned of the "strongest possible response" should active European energy infrastructure be attacked.

It´s russian energy infrastructure, that why this dumb bitch sreamed for years that it has to be stopped. She is an embarassement for all women.

Not really.
It is a de facto Swiss business, as the Nord Stream AG is registered in Zug.
49% of it belongs to a different EU based companies.

Borrell said the damage was intentional at Nord Stream, 09.28.2022.

The incidents on the Nord Stream gas pipelines are not accidental, the information points to deliberate actions, they affect everyone, said EU diplomat Josep Borrell.

“The EU is deeply concerned about the damage to Nord Stream 1 and 2... Security and environmental issues are of the highest priority. These incidents are not accidental and affect all of us, ” RIA Novosti reports his words.

Borrell noted that "all available information indicates that these leaks are the result of deliberate actions."

In addition, according to him, the EU will support any investigation into the incidents at Nord Stream.

“We will support any investigation aimed at obtaining full clarity on what happened and why, and will take further steps to increase our own energy security resilience,” Borrell said.

The day before, former Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski thanked the United States for the accident on Russian gas pipelines. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, asked if Sikorsky's gratitude to the United States for damaging the Nord Streams could be interpreted as an official statement about the terrorist attack.

Recall that on Monday night, pressure dropped in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline . The Danish Maritime Authority reported that there was a gas leak near Nord Stream 2 . Later, a pressure drop was recorded on both lines of Nord Stream 1.

https://vz.ru/news/2022/9/28/1179732.html

Intel Slava Z
Everything has a positive side. In the undermining of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, too.
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Yes, huge economic losses for those who invested in these projects - Gazprom, the German energy companies Wintershall Dea AG and PEGI / E.ON, the Dutch infrastructure company N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie, leading French energy company ENGIE. Losses also for those who gave money, for example, financed SP-2 - two private German energy companies - Wintershall Dea and Uniper, as well as Austrian OMV, French Engie and British-Dutch Shell. Please note that Wintershall Dea and Engie are both co-owners and creditors.
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But, such a turn of events removes rose-colored glasses in the first place from Europe. The Americans make it clear that they will not allow the independence of the EU countries, they are holding them as a fodder economic base for their economy, they will not allow Europe to develop in cooperation with China, they will interfere with building independent transport trade routes from Asia to Europe. And to achieve these goals, the Americans will take any action. War, terror, sanctions, economic strangulation, assassinations of leaders - everything is being used. We all know about it.
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However, there is something new. Yesterday, for the first time, Europe so openly experienced it for itself. Undermining gas pipelines is committing a terrorist act against Europeans with the clear intention of forcing them to buy only the gas that is approved by the United States. In vain, in general, Scholz went to the countries of the Persian Gulf to look for LNG and oil products for Germany, this only provoked Washington

The calculation of Energy of Earthquakes of 2.3 , corresponds to underground blast of TNT equivalent explosive  . Force is transmitted much better in soil then Energy dicipated by underwater blast to the ground , above the buried steel pipes . 60 kg of explosive , would not be enough to rupture thick steel pipe buried under Rock . We need multiple amounts of TNT equivalent . I do not know the precise amount , but if quantity exceeds , say  100 kg , then a UUV or drone and divers can not do this . It is beyond capability of most . What you need is a Ship or submarine to lower large charge into position . A distraction and propaganda by the yanks , to allow Europeans and Russians  to tear each other apart . I am not buying this story of false flag .

Therefore either large conventional or small nuclear by yank ship or sub , but not small nuclear or large conventional by Poland plastic  dingy boat service  !


During the Falklands War, Britain's naval task force carried 31 nuclear depth charges. HMS Hermes had 18, HMS Invincible had 12 and RFA Regent had one by mid-May 1982. The ships were within the “total exclusion zone” imposed by Britain around the Falkland Islands. Details of the number of devices per ship were contained in a file marked “Top Secret Atomic” found at the UK National Archives by media outlet Declassified UK.[1]


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_depth_bomb

A one ton of TNT ground explosion creates a 2.0 on Richter scale . Underwater at least 50% of Energy is used to displace water . Therefore we need two tons of TNT to create 2.0 . The Earthquake was 2.3 ! Therefore conventional explosive too heavy to be placed by divers or dingy . Placing conventional two ton charge is very visible operation , therefore ..........

Just don't try to divert responsibilities. It was the Yanquis, period. Focus blame on them.

Sabotage against Nord Stream points to the Americans, by Alexander Timokhin for VZGLYAD. 09.28.2022.

There is growing evidence that both Nord Stream gas pipelines were deliberately blown up. A number of indirect signs indicate the involvement of the US Navy in the incident. How exactly could the sabotage be arranged and why was the last string of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline left intact?

First of all, it is worth proceeding from the fact that the Ukrainian catastrophe follows the scenario of the American operation to suppress the European Union and eliminate one of the civilizational competitors. "Europe from the Atlantic to Vladivostok", proposed at one time by de Gaulle, would have been a very undesirable scenario for the United States. The US strategists chose Ukraine as another instrument of containment – ​​a “bridge” between Europe and Russia, which also carried the energy needed by the EU in the form of gas. Another alternative was pipelines running through Poland, but in light of Warsaw's Russophobia, this was not a problem at all.

Immediately after Yugoslavia, the US began to invest money in the "new Ukrainian elites." The return of these investments began in 2014, and it is impossible not to recognize that the trade gap between Europe and Russia has greatly hurt both sides.

However, it was not yet a fatal blow. Such a blow to the EU economy looks like the undermining of both lines of the Nord Stream pipeline and one line of Nord Stream 2.

Biden threats and underwater explosions

It's easy to find a video threatening Joe Biden to Nord Stream. In a video filmed in early February 2022, Biden, making a statement following a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, says: “If [Russian] tanks and troops cross the border, there will be no Nord Stream 2, we will end it ". When asked from the audience about how this will be done, Biden says without explanation that "we can do it."

On June 14, 2022, Sea Power magazine published an article stating that the US Navy's Mine Action Squad is practicing a large-scale use of uninhabited underwater vehicles near the Danish island of Bornholm, near the location of the bottom gas pipelines. The Americans practiced during the BALTOPS exercises, which were going on at that moment in the Baltic.

What is the specific issue here? The fact that mines are destroyed today with the help of uninhabited underwater vehicles (UUVs) - mine destroyers. Such a device often carries an explosive charge inside, which is detonated in the immediate vicinity of the mine. There are other special devices, including those that can be used to install overhead explosive charges. The hypothetical detonation of a UUV equipped with a timer, which was previously placed on the pipeline, or the detonation of charges laid by a reusable UUV of another type directly on the pipe, will lead to the destruction of the pipeline wall, which will be sharply aggravated by the huge pressure inside the pipeline gas.

The NPA, however, will not sail out of nowhere. It must be delivered and then managed until it is put into place. We need some kind of naval forces nearby, we need to conduct reconnaissance, we need support.

And the Americans had such forces in the region - from the moment the BALTOPS-2022 exercises began and until September 23, a group of American ships was in the Baltic. Three of her ships - UDC Kerasarge, one helicopter-carrying landing ship dock of the San Antonio type and one old landing ship dock Gunston Hall - passed the Great Belt and on September 25 they already passed the English Channel. Prior to that, the group also included the destroyer Gravely and, separately from the group, somewhat to the north, the lead destroyer in its class, Arleigh Burke.

At the latter, by the way, an extraordinary event occurred - a sailor disappeared at sea, and his search did not lead to anything. Baltika took over David Spearman forever under unclear circumstances. Maybe a bad dive?

The most interesting in another. Beginning September 2, US Navy MH-60S helicopters begin intensive flights over both pipelines east of Bornholm. The tracks are on the web. What were the Americans doing there? The question is open. The United States has helicopter-operated anti-mine destroyers, but they are very small. On the other hand, we only know what they report about themselves. They may well have a more powerful helicopter-dropped UUV with explosives, controlled via a fiber-optic cable from a hovering helicopter or via a cable and a drifting floating antenna. The Americans also practice the delivery of a boat by air, and with a crew. And it’s not a question at all to organize the control of the NPA from it, as well as the descent of cargo (explosives and detonators) to a depth that is about 70-100 meters there. Helicopters flew over the pipelines until 13 September.

On September 26, at 02:03 am, Swedish seismic sensors recorded a powerful explosion. The Americans had already left the Baltic at this point. At 19:04 there was another explosion, and a little later, information about a drop in pressure in the pipelines began to leak into the media. Then there were reports of “unprecedented disruption” to the pipeline, with Nord Stream AG officials reporting that both Nord Stream 1 and one Nord Stream 2 had been destroyed and were unable to supply gas.

I must say that for the EU this is a knockdown at least, especially for Germany. For Russia, this is not good from an economic point of view, but these consequences are simply nothing compared to others - those that may lie behind the last branch of Nord Stream 2 remaining intact.

Provocation scenario

If it's the Americans, then why are they acting so brazenly? On the face of it, this looks like their traditional tactic of constantly forcing European leaders to swear allegiance to the notorious "Atlantic unity". In the case of pipelines, it should be a public and undeniable demonstration of confidence that the explosion was the work of the terrible Russians. It doesn't matter what's really there.

But here they stick a knife in the back of the same Germans. What happens if Scholz, who has just been shown how a US Navy amphibious battle group is blowing up the German future forever, doesn't want to play along?

What if it breaks down and, in response to this move, the US position in Germany, on the contrary, weakens? After all, winter is ahead! And here we must ask the most important question in this story. And why did the attackers leave the last branch of Nord Stream 2 untouched?

Maybe in order to find some kind of explosive device made in Russia or something similar to it? Something with Russian markings or using Russian or Soviet components? As if the explosive device had broken and failed to detonate. How will the population in Europe and the USA react then? What measures will European governments have to take to satisfy the anger of the masses of people who have lost their future?

This is a serious question. If such a provocation really takes place, then its consequences may be unpredictable. The same Englishmen are already preparing public opinion: the Telegraph alone managed to publish several articles stating that undermining the “streams” is a “Russian sabotage”. For example, one of them came out under the heading “Europe suspects Russia of sabotage after the “unprecedented” damage to the Nord Stream gas pipeline to Europe.”

Find something explosive on the last pipe and with reference to Russia, and here Scholz will not be able to explain why he does not want to give Ukraine German tanks.

We will have to give up tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and in general everything that Washington will demand. Moreover, now there are no other pipes, except Ukrainian, for gas supply to Europe from Russia. And this will be true not only for Scholz and Germany.

The VZGLYAD newspaper warned a year and a half ago that Nord Stream could become the target of an attack . Today it is important not to let the West hang this sabotage on us.

https://vz.ru/world/2022/9/28/1179688.html

Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova:

Russia intends to convene an official UN Security Council Meeting regarding the incidents with the #NordStream & #NordStream2 gas pipelines.

Cui bono?

JohninMK wrote:

Kiko wrote:Cui bono?

Indeed, how about this possible quirk?

With NS2 Russsia was in for 51% (its share) of 30% of E8.8B or around E1.35B.

An interesting part of the cost build up is the E800M funded from transit earnings, it is possible that the Russia/Germany gas contract is 'take or pay' to allow that financing. If so Germany is currently running up a huge deferred bill to Russia, probably covered by a force majeure clause that may now be triggered getting them off the hook.

I am skeptical that "US partners blowing the pipe" is not a risk the Russian side did not contemplate from the very beginning...

Eurasia & Multipolarity
The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation initiated a case on an act of international terrorism re. damage to the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

Germany and EU have been handed over a declaration of war

By Pepe Escobar

The sabotage of the Nord Stream (NS) and Nord Stream 2 (NS2) pipelines in the Baltic Sea has ominously propelled 'Disaster Capitalism' to a whole new, toxic level.

This episode of Hybrid Industrial/Commercial War, in the form of a terror attack against energy infrastructure in international waters signals the absolute collapse of international law, drowned by a “our way or the highway”, “rules-based”, order.

The attack on both pipelines consisted of multiple explosive charges detonated in separate branches close to the Danish island of Bornholm, but in international waters.

That was a sophisticated operation, carried out in stealth in the shallow depth of the Danish straits. That would in principle rule out submarines (ships entering the Baltic are limited to a draught of 15 meters). As for prospective “invisible” vessels, these could only loiter around with permission from Copenhagen – as the waters around Borholm are crammed with sensors, reflecting fear of incursion by Russian submarines.

Swedish seismologists registered two underwater explosions on Monday – one of them estimated at 100 kg of TNT. Yet as much as 700 kg may have been used to blow up three separate pipeline nodes. Such amount could not have possibly been delivered in just one trip by underwater drones currently available in neighboring nations.

The pressure on the pipelines dropped exponentially. The pipes are now filled with seawater.

The pipes on both NS and NS2 can be repaired, of course, but hardly before the arrival of General Winter. The question is whether Gazprom – already focused on several hefty Eurasian customers - would bother, especially considering that Gazprom vessels could be exposed to a possible NATO naval attack in the Baltic.

German officials are already spinning that NS and NS2 can “potentially” be out of commission “forever”. The EU economy and EU citizens badly needed that gas supply. Yet the EUrocracy in Brussels – which rules over nation-states – would not follow, because they have been dictated themselves by the Empire of Chaos, Lies and Plunder. A case can be made that this Euro-oligarchy should one day be tried for treason.

As it stands, a strategic irreversibility is already self-evident; the population of several EU nations will pay a tremendous price and suffer serious consequences derived from this attack, short, medium and long term.

Cui bono?

Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson admitted that was “a matter of sabotage”. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen admitted “it was not an accident”. Berlin agrees with the Scandinavians.

Now compare it with former Polish Defense Minister (2005-2007) Radek Sikorski, a Russophobe married to rabid US “analyst” Anne Applebaum, who merrily tweeted “Thank you, USA”.

It gets curiouser and curiouser when we know that simultaneously to the sabotage the Baltic Pipe from Norway to Poland was partially opened, a “new gas supply corridor” servicing “the Danish and Polish markets”: actually a minor affair, considering months ago their sponsors were in trouble finding gas, and now it will be even harder, with much higher costs.

NS2 had already been attacked – in the open - all along its construction. Back in February, Polish ships actively tried to prevent the Fortuna pipe-laying vessel from finishing NS2. The pipes were being laid south of – you guessed it – Bornholm.

NATO for its part has been very active on the underwater drones department. The Americans have access to long distance Norwegian underwater drones which can be modified with other designs. Alternatively, professional navy clearance divers could have been employed in the sabotage – even as tidal currents around Bornholm are a serious matter.

The Big Picture reveals the collective West in absolute panic, with Atlanticist “elites” willing to resort to anything – outrageous lies, assassinations, terrorism, sabotage, all out financial war, support to neo-Nazis – to prevent their descent into a geopolitical and geoeconomic abyss.

Disabling NS and NS2 represents the definitive closure of any possibility of a German-Russia deal on gas supplies, with the added benefit of relegating Germany to the lowly status of absolute US vassal.

So that brings us to the key question of which Western intel apparatus designed the sabotage. Prime candidates are of course CIA and MI6 – with Poland set up as the fall guy and Denmark playing a very dodgy part: it’s impossible that Copenhagen was not at least “briefed” on the intel.

Prescient as ever, as early as in April 2021 Russians were asking questions about the military security of Nord Stream.

The crucial vector is that we may be facing the case of a EU/NATO member involved in an act of sabotage against the number one EU/NATO economy. That’s a casus belli. Outside of the appalling mediocrity and cowardice of the current administration in Berlin, it’s clear that the BND – German intel – as well as the German Navy and informed industrialists sooner or later will do the math.

This was far from an isolated attack. On September 22 there was an attempt against Turkish Stream by Kiev saboteurs. The day before, naval drones with English language IDs were found in Crimea, suspected of being part of the plot. Add to it US helicopters overflying the future sabotage nodes weeks ago; a UK “research” vessel loitering in Danish waters since mid-September; and NATO tweeting about the testing of "new unmanned systems at sea" on the same day of the sabotage.

Show me the (gas) money

The Danish Minister of Defense met urgently with NATO’s Secretary General this Wednesday. After all the explosions happened very close to Denmark’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). That may be qualified as crude kabuki at best; exactly on the same day, the European Commission (EC), NATO’s de facto political office, advanced its trademark obsession: more sanctions against Russia, including the certified-to-fail cap on oil prices.

Meanwhile, EU energy giants are bound to lose big time with the sabotage.

The roll call includes the German Wintershall Dea AG and PEG/ E.ON; the Dutch N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie; and the French ENGIE. Then there are those which financed NS2: Wintershall Dea again as well as Uniper; Austrian OMV; ENGIE again; and British-Dutch Shell. Wintershall Dea and ENGIE are both co-owners and creditors. Their fuming shareholders will want serious answers from a serious investigation.

It gets worse: there are no holds barred anymore on the Pipeline Terror front. Russia will be on red alert not only for Turk Stream but also Power of Siberia. Same for the Chinese and their maze of pipelines arriving in Xinjiang.

Whatever the methodology and the actors who were in the loop, this is payback – in advance - for the inevitable collective West defeat in Ukraine. And a crude warning to the Global South that they will do it again. Yet action always breeds reaction: from now on, “funny things” could also happen to US/UK pipelines in international waters.

The EU oligarchy is reaching an advanced process of disintegration at lightning speed. Their window of opportunity to at least attempt a role as a strategically autonomous geopolitical actor is now closed.

These EUROcrats now face a serious predicament. Once it’s clear who are the perpetrators of the sabotage in the Baltic, and once they understand all the life-changing socio-economic consequences for pan-EU citizens, the kabuki will have to stop. Including the already running, uber-ridiculous subplot that Russia blew up its own pipeline when Gazprom could simply have turned off the valves for good.

And once again, it gets worse: Gazprom is threatening to sue the Ukrainian energy company Naftofgaz for unpaid bills. That would lead to the end of Russian gas transiting Ukraine towards the EU.

As if all of that was not serious enough, Germany is contractually obligated to purchase at least 40 billion cubic meters of Russian gas a year until 2030.

Just say no? They can’t: Gazprom is legally entitled to get paid even without shipping gas. That’s the spirit of a long-term contract. And it's already happening: because of sanctions, Berlin does not get all the gas it needs but still needs to pay.

All the devils are here

Now it's painfully clear the imperial velvet gloves are off when it comes to the vassals. EU independence: verboten. Cooperation with China: verboten. Independent trade connectivity with Asia: verboten. The only place for the EU is to be economically subjugated to the US: a tawdry remix of 1945-1955. With a perverse neoliberal twist: we will own your industrial capacity, and you will have nothing.

The sabotage of NS and NS2 is inbuilt in the imperial wet dream of breaking up the Eurasian land mass into a thousand pieces to prevent a trans-Eurasia consolidation between Germany (representing the EU), Russia and China: $50 trillion in GDP, based on purchasing power parity (PPP) compared to the US’s $20 trillion.

We must go back to Mackinder: control of the Eurasian land mass constitutes control of the world. American elites and their Trojan Horses across Europe will do whatever it takes not to give up their control.

“American elites” in this context encompass the deranged, Straussian neo-con-infested “intel community” and the Big Energy, Big Pharma and Big Finance that pays them and who profits not only from the Deep State’s Forever War approach but also wants to make a killing out of the Davos-concocted Great Reset.

The Raging Twenties started with a murder – of Gen Soleimani. Blowing up pipelines is part of the sequel. There will be a highway to hell all the way to 2030. Yet to borrow from Shakespeare, hell is definitely empty, and all the (Atlanticist) devils are here.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/09/28/690009/Germany-EU-have-been-handed-over-declaration-of-war