The Swedish Coast Guard says that the leak near the “Nord Stream 2” line has reduced in size, but it is still continuing.
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One of the Nord Stream seeps is fading, and there’s a high level of methane over Scandinavia.
One of the four gas leaks from the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea has begun to ease, Swedish authorities confirmed Friday, while high levels of methane were observed over many areas in Scandinavia.
The Swedish Coast Guard said in a statement this morning that this leak, located near the Nord Stream 2 line on the Swedish side, “has reduced in size, but it is still continuing.”
Yesterday, Thursday, the Swedish Coast Guard reported to Agence France-Presse, gas leak detection From a fourth site in the allegedly sabotaged Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic Sea.
The Danish Energy Agency raised Level of preparedness in the electricity and gas sector to the orange level, after a gas leak was detected in the Nord Stream pipelines.
The leaks occurred in international waters off the Swedish island of Bornholm, and both were preceded by them Underwater explosions Both were recorded and several countries suggested that they resulted from Sabotage.
But two of the leaks occurred in the Swedish EEZ and the other two in the Danish EEZ.
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The second leak on the Swedish side, which is larger and is linked to Nord Stream 1, shows no signs of shrinking, according to the Coast Guard.
The Danish police did not comment on the development of the leak from the Danish side, in response to a question by Agence France-Presse.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said earlier that all the information About gas leaks One of the Nord Stream tubes indicates that it was caused by a deliberate act, adding that the conglomerate supports any investigation into the matter.
And Copenhagen considered, on Wednesday, that more than half of the methane contained in the two out-of-service Nord Stream gas pipelines had leaked, with the remaining amount leaking by Sunday.
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According to a simulation published on Friday by the independent Norwegian Nilu Institute specializing in air analysis, the methane cloud has moved with the winds over many Swedish and Norwegian regions since Monday, and reached as far as the United Kingdom.
According to his estimates, nearly 80,000 tons of methane leaked from the damaged pipelines in the two pipelines, more than 4 times the annual emissions from the oil and gas sector in Norway, which is one of the main producers of hydrocarbons in Europe. Methane emissions are not harmful to human health, according to the authorities, but they do contribute to climate warming.