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[1/2] A presumption shows blaze from a ruptured state pipeline adjacent the colony of Yambakhtino successful the Chuvash Republic, Russia December 20, 2022, successful this inactive representation obtained from a societal media video. PRO GOROD 21 CHUVASH Telegram Channel/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.
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MOSCOW, Dec 20 (Reuters) - A section portion of the Russian vigor elephantine Gazprom (GAZP.MM) said connected Tuesday that state was being supplied to customers successful afloat via parallel pipelines pursuing a fatal detonation successful a conception of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline.
The blast, adjacent Kalinino, astir 150 km (90 miles) westbound of the Volga metropolis of Kazan successful cardinal Russia, killed 3 radical and threatened to disrupt immoderate of the constricted measurement of Russian state that is inactive reaching Europe contempt the economical fallout from Russia's subject run successful Ukraine.
"The damaged conception of the state pipeline was promptly localised. Gas is being transported to consumers successful afloat done parallel state pipelines," Gazprom Transgaz Nizhny Novgorod said successful a statement.
The travel of state done the "Urengoy-Tsentr-2" conception of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline, which takes state from Russia's Arctic to cardinal Europe via Ukraine, was halted arsenic of 1:50 p.m. (1050 GMT), section officials said connected the Telegram messaging app. A state flare astatine the rima of the tube was extinguished soon after.
Oleg Nikolayev, politician of the Chuvashia region, told authorities tv that 3 workers who had been servicing the pipeline had been killed, portion another, a driver, was suffering shock.
Nikolayev said authorities were trying to enactment retired erstwhile state supplies done that conception mightiness resume.
The pipeline, built successful the 1980s, enters Ukraine via the Sudzha metering point, presently the main way for Russian state to scope Europe.
Europe's state prices person surged this year since Russia chopped exports done its main Baltic pipeline into Germany, leaving lone pipelines done Ukraine to pump Russian state to European consumers.
Gazprom had said earlier connected Tuesday it expected to pump 43 cardinal cubic metres of state to Europe via Ukraine done Sudzha successful the adjacent 24 hours, a measurement successful enactment with caller days.
Forward prices connected the Dutch TTF trading hub roseate aft quality of the blast, but fell backmost pursuing the connection connected supplies continuing.
The benchmark TTF front-month declaration was dependable astatine 107.00 euros per megawatt hr astatine 1515 GMT.
Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin and Oksana Kobzeva; Editing by Kevin Liffey, Andrew Osborn and Barbara Lewis
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