# Gazprom halts Nord Stream 1 deliveries indefinitely

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 2 September 2022 Gazprom said Nord Stream 1 would not resume after a maintenance halt, citing a turbine fault. European governments treated the halt as a political cutoff during the war.

## Context

Flows had already been reduced through the summer. [Putin](/people/vladimir-putin) publicly linked energy supplies to sanctions. Gazprom is a majority-state company; the Kremlin sets the political weather. Complex contribution: a corporate notice under a wartime presidency, not a personal wrench on a turbine.

The later subsea explosions are a different, still-contested instrument. Power of Siberia first gas in 2019 is a different date and direction.

The president of the Russian Federation is commander-in-chief and can issue decrees, sign statutes the Federal Assembly has passed, and represent the state abroad. He does not write UN General Assembly resolutions, ICC warrants, or European Council conclusions.

## Evidence and sources

Gazprom carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [energy-price volatility](/drivers/energy-price-volatility) and energy security: an indefinite halt of the main remaining Russian pipeline to Germany is a completed supply shock. Households meet it as prices; governments meet it as storage and substitution.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 2 September 2022 Gazprom notice that Nord Stream 1 would not resume, during a war Putin had ordered.

Not established: that Putin personally damaged a turbine, or a unique later CPI coefficient from that afternoon, or authorship of the later subsea explosions.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Gazprom issued the halt. European buyers had to substitute.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Gazprom halts Nord Stream 1 deliveries indefinitely, not a later speech about Gazprom halts Nord Stream 1 deliveries indefinitely.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Gazprom halts Nord Stream 1 deliveries indefinitely on 2022-09-02 is not a licence to treat every later Gazprom communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Gazprom halts Nord Stream 1 deliveries indefinitely into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He set the wartime energy policy. Gazprom issued the halt. European buyers had to substitute. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Vladimir Putin: https://factrail.ai/people/vladimir-putin

## Drivers

- Energy-Price Volatility: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-price-volatility
- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gazprom-says-it-cannot-resume-nord-stream-1-supplies-due-oil-leak-2022-09-02/
- https://www.gazprom.com/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ru-gas-cutoffs-europe-2022