European energy crisis, 2022/2023

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Why would the Nord Stream pipelines have been sabotaged?

I do work with Pipeline and Flow Assurance Engineers and know a little bit. Waited till the weekend to do some calcs. Hope this helps : Lets look at Nord Stream 1 : It would actually take quite a lot. The pipeline deign pressure was in excess of 200 bar (2901 psi). " The pipelines have a constant internal diameter of 1,153 millimetres. However, Nord Stream designed the pipeline with three different design pressure sections (220, 200 and 177.5 bar) and pipe wall thicknesses (34.4, 30.9 and 26.…

I posted the above. It will be hard to sabotage the pipeline without intimate and current knowledge of the location. Marine pipelines are buried in trenches and unless you have good intel, you wont be able to locate them undersea.