{"id":519884,"date":"2022-09-06T10:12:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T04:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=519884"},"modified":"2022-09-06T11:02:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T05:32:35","slug":"what-are-the-nord-stream-1-2-pipelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/what-are-the-nord-stream-1-2-pipelines\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Nord Stream 1 &amp; 2 pipelines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Russia fulfills nearly 40 per cent of the European Union\u2019s natural gas requirement? And this gas reaches European shores through a 1222-km long pipeline passing through Baltic Sea. Called Nord Stream 1, this pipeline stretches from St Petersburg to north-eastern Germany. And another pipeline, called Nord Stream 2, was under-construction.<\/p>\n<p>Who controls Nord Stream 1?<\/p>\n<p>Nord Stream AG owns and runs Nord Stream 1. And Russian state company Gazprom holds a majority stake in it. So, in a way, the Russian government controls the gas and the pipeline. <\/p>\n<p>Why is it in the news?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Russia fulfills nearly 40 per cent of the European Union\u2019s natural gas requirement? And this gas reaches European shores through a 1222-km long pipeline passing through Baltic Sea. Called Nord Stream 1, this pipeline stretches from St Petersburg to north-eastern Germany. And another pipeline, called Nord Stream 2, was under-construction. Who controls Nord Stream 1? Nord Stream AG owns and runs Nord Stream 1. And Russian state company Gazprom holds a majority stake in it. So, in a way, the Russian government controls the gas and the pipeline. Why is it in the news?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}