Russia is burning natural gas into the air at the border. The fire can be seen from Finland.
According to satellite images of the NASA fire monitoring system, flames have been burning at the Portova compressor station of the Russian company Gazprom every day since June 17.
Residents of the Virolakhti municipality also told journalists that they saw the fire raging across the Russian border.
This may indicate that it is already difficult for Russia to store the extracted gas, and they began to simply burn it there.
According to the Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Galushchenko, such processes show that Western sanctions continue to bind Russians.
"Instead of earning billions of euros from supplies, the Russians are forced to simply burn the extracted gas into the air. The blackmailers are already feeling the damage and the time period when they can still dictate their terms is rapidly decreasing," he wrote on Facebook and added that the West must maintain the sanctions regime and strengthen it even more.
Gentosaur1 on August 5th, 2022 at 01:32 UTC »
I’m an environmental engineer who works with oil and gas and it’s actually way more environmentally friendly to burn natural gas than to simply exhaust it into the atmosphere. Most of the time, burning gas removes about 98% of the really volatile pollutants within the stream.
Kitakitakita on August 5th, 2022 at 00:13 UTC »
Finland should make a giant fan and blow it towards them
jmptx on August 4th, 2022 at 22:28 UTC »
I guess that they never thought that well would run dry. I've known people in oil and gas who've worked in Russia and over the years they did not seem to put much capital into storage as they always expected to ship it out before it was an issue.
"Not much capital" in oil and gas terms. Still a boat load of money, but probably not the infrastructure they should have prepared.
I'm sure lots of pockets were lined, though.