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Gas stopped leaking from Nord Stream 1: Swedish Coast Guard

But a smaller leak from Nord Stream 2 was still visible

03 October, 16:56
(ANSA-AFP) - STOCKHOLM, OCT 3 - Sweden's coast guard said Monday it could no longer see any leaks from the Nord Stream 1 pipeline in the Baltic Sea, but a smaller leak from Nord Stream 2 was still visible. "The larger leak is now no longer visible on the surface while the smaller one instead has increased slightly," the coast guard said in a statement. The observations were made during an overflight on Monday at around 8:00 am (0600 GMT) of the two pipelines suspected to have been damaged in an act of sabotage, it added. "At that time, the smaller leak was approximately 30 metres in diameter," the coast guard said. A spokesman for the operator of the Nord Stream pipelines, Nord Stream AG, said Saturday that the leaking from the Nord Stream 2 pipeline had stopped because an equilibrium had been reached between the gas and water pressure. (ANSA-AFP).

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