Russian gas pipeline explodes, kills 3
A gas pipeline in central Russia exploded on Tuesday, sending a huge fireball into the air and killing three people. (PRO GOROD 21 CHUVASH TELEGRAM CHANNEL via Reuters)
A video on Tuesday showed an explosion along a Russian gas pipeline that killed three people but did not interrupt gas supplies to Europe, officials said.
The explosion occurred on the Urengoy-Pomarie-Uzhgorod pipeline in the Chuvashya region, about 420 miles east of Moscow, on Tuesday afternoon local time, sending a huge burst of combustion gases into the air, believed to have been generated during repair work. It erupted, killing 3 repair workers and 3 others. injure the driver.
Reportedly, the pipeline will start at a gas field in Siberia, cross to Ukraine, and then enter the European Union.
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A gas pipeline in central Russia exploded on Tuesday, sending a huge fireball into the air and killing three people.
(PRO GOROD 21 CHUVASH TELEGRAM CHANNEL via Reuters)
The fire has reportedly been extinguished, but Chuvashia Governor Oleg Nikolaev said it was unclear how long it would take to repair the damaged pipeline section.
Russia’s state energy agency Gazprom said it would not affect EU gas exports.
Gazprom Transgaz Nizhny Novgorod said, “The damaged section of the gas pipeline was quickly localized. Gas is being fully transported to consumers through parallel gas pipelines,” according to Reuters. said.
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An infographic titled ‘Russia struggles to fill the gap left by Europe in natural gas exports’ was created in Ankara, Turkiye on 21 October 2022. It has shrunk to 9%.
(Elmrod Usvaliev/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Gas exports from Russia supplied about 40% of natural gas to Europe leading up to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, but damage to the Nord Stream pipeline network, which saw multiple explosions earlier this year, put it on hold. already interrupted.
Western officials have accused Russia of intentionally targeting the pipeline. Preliminary investigations found “serious sabotage” behind the incident when traces of explosives were found on “foreign” objects.
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A pipeline is seen at the Russian gas compressor station in Sudja near the Russian-Ukrainian border on January 11, 2009.
(Sergey Spinski/AFP via Getty Images)
The Urengoy – Pomary – Uzhhorod pipeline is the main pipeline that supplies gas to Europe via Ukraine.
Gazprom reportedly said it plans to pump 43 million cubic meters of gas into Europe over the next 24 hours.
Fox News’ Haley Chi-Sing and Associated Press contributed to this report.
