The price of gas in Europe has updated the record and exceeded 543 dollars per thousand cubic meters, the ICE Futures exchange data is evidenced. It happened against the background of a fire at the Yamal Plant “Gazprom” under the new Urengoye.
at 12:00 Moscow time The price of September futures for gas on the TTF index was 546.3 dollars per thousand cubic meters.
The explosion and fire occurred on the night of August 5, fully managed to cope only by morning on August 6. The source of “tape.ru” at the factory said that the incident could lead to the stop of the entire gas processing complex of Western Siberia. Because of it, the east of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District was almost completely stopped.
Because of the fire, pumping through the gas pipeline “Yamal-Europe” fell twice. There are no dead and affected by incident, but the structural elements of the building are damaged on the square two thousand square meters and inside the equipment.
about 80 percent of Russian gas is mined in the YNAO. In addition to stopping the processing, ecology is seriously damaged. During the accident, emissions of combustion products of gas condensate, gas and oil occurred.