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Added on the 08/03/2022 09:15:26 - Copyright : France 24 EN
The pipeline carrying gas from the Norwegian shelf is central to Poland's plan to diversify away from Russian supplies that began years before the invasion of Ukraine.
Budapest is keen to buy up to 700 million cubic metres of gas from Russia, said foreign minister Peter Szijjarto.
A blast that ripped through a section of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline has killed three people. The incident occurred in the region of Chuvashia, 700 km east of Moscow, on a pipeline carrying Siberian natural gas towards European markets.
Berlin has announced the completion of its first liquified natural gas terminal, the first of five facilities across the country as it moves away from Russian energy contracts.
Polish operator PERN said the leak was detected in a section of the pipe around 70 kilometres from the central Polish city of Plock.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.