Scheduled preventive maintenance and repair operations at the Yamal – Europe gas pipeline are to start on September 1 at 4:00 pm Moscow time. The operations will be carried out in Russia, Poland and Germany simultaneously. Therefore, natural gas transmission via the pipeline will be temporarily suspended for up to 30 hours. Scheduled preventive maintenance and repair operations were agreed upon with all the stakeholders in December 2008.

Additional volumes of gas transit across Ukraine will ensure gas supply to consumers.

Background:

It is the ninth set of scheduled preventive maintenance and repair operations carried out at gas export trunklines.

The last set of preventive maintenance and repair operations scheduled for this year will be accomplished on September 22 at the Soyuz gas pipeline. Gas supply to consumers will be ensured through gas flow redistribution.