Russia Resumes Nord Stream Gas Shipments, Physical Flow at ~21.4 GWh/h

Russian gas flows through the Nord Stream pipeline resumed on Thursday morning after the completion of a 10-day maintenance, the operator of the pipeline said. Nord Stream 1 physical flow between 06:00 - 07:00 is 21,388,236 kWh/h vs. nominations of 29,284,591 kWh/h, per the operator's website.

• A spokesperson for Nord Stream AG earlier told Bloomberg that restoring the volume of shipments to requested levels will take some time, but the fact that Moscow has turned the taps back will see many breathe a sigh of relief.
• As mentioned, orders/nominations are for about 29.3 GWh/h through the whole day but this does not need to match actual physical deliveries. The capacity of Nord Stream 1 pipeline is about 73 GWh/h, which means orders are for about 40% of capacity.
• The president of Germany's Federal Network Agency earlier tweeted that the pipeline was running at about 30% of capacity this morning, which was guaranteed for two hours and usually does not change within a day.