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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Keeps Pipeline Shut as Gazprom, Siemens Energy Wrangle

In this file photo taken on August 03, 2022 a turbine of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline is pictured at the plant of Siemens Energy next to the company's logo in Muelheim an der Ruhr, western Germany, where it is stored after maintenance work in Canada. (AFP)

Russia kept one of its main gas supply routes to Europe shut on Saturday, stoking fears of winter fuel shortages and spotlighting differences between Gazprom and Germany's Siemens Energy over repair work on the pipeline.

Already struggling to tame soaring gas prices, European governments had expected the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to resume flows after a short maintenance this week but Russia abruptly cancelled the restart, citing an oil leak in a turbine.

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