Gazprom begins dismantling Turkish Stream pipes

The “shale revolution” launched by the United States of America, as well as the civil war in Ukraine that followed the Maidan in 2014, entailed a chain reaction that changed the gas market of the European Union. Policy The United States and the countries of Eastern Europe that are "harnessing" them, aimed at building an image of an aggressive monster from Russia with which it is impossible to conduct business, have not, on the whole, been crowned with success.





It is obvious that the natural gas market in the European Union will be redistributed in the coming years. The United States will be the first to win, which has succeeded in politically succeeding in pushing not too profitable supplies of its liquefied natural gas. The interests of the North American gas business are actively lobbying for the United States Senate. American gas companies are already actively building gas liquefaction terminals, an excess of which has formed in the US after the success of the “shale revolution”.

Germany, a leading country in the European Union, is actively pursuing a policy of diversifying supplies of blue fuel. Allegedly frightened by the “Russian threat”, the Germans no longer want to depend on gas supplies only from the Russian Federation and Norway. The new coalition agreement on the results of the elections to the German Bundestag proclaimed a four-year program for the construction of terminals for receiving liquefied natural gas. It is planned to invest about 500 million euros in the construction of the first German LNG terminal in Brunsbüttel. The Germans will invest another half a billion euros in the second LNG terminal in the city of Duisburg.

However, it is noteworthy that pragmatic Germans are not at all going to abandon Russian pipeline gas. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, trying not to be strangled in a tenacious American embrace, continues to support the Gazprom project Nord Stream-2. At the same time, in order to protect its own environment, Germany is reducing the consumption of oil and coal and is actively developing solar energy and other alternative sources of energy. Practical Turkey will receive an additional 15 billion cubic meters of gas to its domestic market from Gazprom through the upcoming Turkish Stream. It can be concluded that countries pursuing an adequate policy towards the Russian Federation receive obvious benefits from cooperation with it.

On the other hand, countries actively “podgavlivaya” the United States, were at a loss. Hostile Ukraine got a break in gas supply and transit agreements, which could finally finish off its collapsing the economy at an accelerated pace. The once friendly Bulgaria, which could become a transit country for Russian “blue fuel”, receiving undoubted benefits from this, incited by the States, repaired Gazprom’s obstacles and in the end was left with nothing. The construction of the South Stream was stopped, the Bulgarians were given time to change their minds, but the pro-American politicians there did not allow this country to take the right step towards Russia.

Now Gazprom is preserving compressor stations and liquidating part of the 506-km pipeline, which was originally built with South Stream in mind and then redirected to Turetsky. However, when it became clear that the Turkish Stream was unlikely to go further than Turkey itself, a decision was made to dismantle part of its capacity.