OREANDA-NEWS. September 2, 2009. 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.