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rho4 ◴[01 Sep 25 08:41 UTC] No.45090791[source]▶
I for example do not understand how it can be possible that Ukraine transports Russian gas on its pipeline network. Not sure if that's still the case though.
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1. scyzoryk_xyz ◴[01 Sep 25 09:01 UTC] No.45090906[source]▶
I believe it's in part due to the actual way the pipelines work - gas isn't simply piped into one end and out the other like fluid or switched on and off like energy systems.

Switching it off on one end would require storing it somewhere at the source and switching it off on the other could destroy the actual piping. You can't just "take" it from one and easily transfer it to another customer.

AFAIK it's the engineering but that other comment about neighhbors in Dubai is yeah