Gazprom has started decommissioning Russian compressor stations on gas pipelines leading to Ukraine,

Gazprom has started decommissioning Russian compressor stations on gas pipelines leading to Ukraine, Alexander Babakov, Director General of Gazprom Transgaz Moscow, tells Russian media. Three have been closed since 2017. “In the next two years, we plan to decommission four more,” Babakov said of pumping stations that compress gas to push it through pipelines. Ukraine inherited 38,550 km of pipelines from the Soviet Union. The main function is to send Russian gas to Europe. This job that could be largely superseded by the commissioning one year from now of Nord Stream 2, a doubling of an existing Russia-Germany pipeline.