Posted in accidents, energy policy, natural gas, pipelines, Russia, Uncategorized, tagged germany, Nord Stream, Putin, Tucker Carlson on February 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Here is the entire interview. The Nord Stream sabotage discussion begins just after the 1:11 mark.
Putin suggests that people consider who had an interest in sabotaging the pipelines and who had the capability. He also asks why Germany isn’t allowing gas to flow through the one Nord Stream line that wasn’t damaged.â
Posted in accidents, pipelines, Russia, tagged Nord Stream, Ukraine on May 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »
German investigators are sceptical of claims that Russian naval ships sabotaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines and are instead pursuing leads that point to the Ukrainian authorities, according to a report.
The vacuum of official information has been filled by speculation variously pinning the blame on the United States, Russia, the Ukrainian secret services and an unnamed businessman in Ukraine. All three states have denied responsibility.
Times of London
Posted in energy, pipelines, Russia, tagged Nord Stream, Ray McGovern, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine on April 10, 2023| Leave a Comment »
The Nord Stream discussion begins at the 21 minute mark, but the entire interview is interesting.
Also, Swedish prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist, is apparently unconvinced by the improbable Nord Stream explanation that was fed to the NY Times.
“We don’t rule out anything, but that it is a state actor who is directly or at least indirectly behind this is of course our absolute main scenario, given all the circumstances.”
Mats Ljungqvist
Posted in pipelines, Russia, tagged intelligence, Nord Stream, sabotage, Seymour Hersh on March 7, 2023| Leave a Comment »
This intelligence leak seems rather convenient in that it absolves both the US and Ukrainian governments, but who knows?
U.S. officials said that they had no evidence President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine or his top lieutenants were involved in the operation, or that the perpetrators were acting at the direction of any Ukrainian government officials.
New York Times
Meanwhile, Seymour Hersh is promising a followup Nord Stream report next week.
Posted in energy policy, Norway, pipelines, Russia, Uncategorized, tagged NATO, Nord Stream, pipelines, sabotage on February 8, 2023| 1 Comment »
I’m posting this link without comment.
Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning.
Seymour Hersch
Posted in energy policy, Gulf of Mexico, natural gas, pipelines, Russia, tagged Nord Stream, offshore safety, pipelines, Victoria Nuland on February 3, 2023| Leave a Comment »
I do not recall any other such incidents.
Victoria Nuland’s glee over the Nord Stream damage (video clip below) is particularly galling to those responsible for offshore production, worker safety, and environmental protection. Does she realize that the Gulf of Mexico has more than 13,000 miles of active offshore pipeline that could be similarly targeted, and that the US has 2.6 million miles of onshore pipelines?
Whether or not the US was involved in the Nord Stream sabotage, Ms. Nuland’s schadenfreude is disturbing given the economic and security implications of the attack.
Posted in Offshore Energy - General, pipelines, Russia, tagged explosions, Nord Stream, pipelines, who did it? on November 28, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Posted in energy, Offshore Energy - General, pipelines, Russia, tagged explosives, Nord Stream, Sweden on November 18, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Swedenâs prosecutorâs office said Friday that an investigation into gas leaks from two underwater pipelines connecting Russia to Germany found traces of explosives, confirming that it is a case of âserious sabotage.â
CNBC
Posted in pipelines, Russia, UK, tagged AIS, dark ships, Nord Stream, pipeline rupture on November 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Using satellite data, SpaceKnow detected 2 “dark ships” near the pipelines prior to the explosions. The ships were operating with their automatic identification system (AIS) transponders turned off or malfunctioning. While this is cause for suspicion, no data were provided on the frequency of such issues in the Baltic. Also, what were the specific routes and timelines for these vessels? Absent this information. the “dark ship” reports aren’t terribly meaningful.
Although the assumption that the explosions occurred outside the pipeline seems most likely, some observers have suggested that the explosions were internal. It’s unknown whether the investigators have ruled out this possibility.
Meanwhile, the folks in Germany and elsewhere in Europe are understandably impatient. They want answers from their governments!
Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE) 