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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Vladimir Soldatkin and Oksana Kobzeva

Gazprom: gas supplied in full, bypassing damaged Russian export pipeline

A view shows blaze from a ruptured gas pipeline near the village of Yambakhtino in the Chuvash Republic, Russia December 20, 2022, in this still image obtained from a social media video. PRO GOROD 21 CHUVASH Telegram Channel/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

A local unit of the Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday that gas was being supplied to customers in full via parallel pipelines following a fatal explosion in a section of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline.

The blast, near Kalinino, around 150 km (90 miles) west of the Volga city of Kazan in central Russia, killed three people and threatened to disrupt some of the limited volume of Russian gas that is still reaching Europe despite the economic fallout from Russia's military campaign in Ukraine.

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