Resident Potatohead reporting for duty! AMA!

Not so dire a situation. Pipeline is used at minimal flow during the winter.

• As the article states, this is a predominately seasonal pipeline and minimally used during the Winter months.

• Repairs will take appx 1-2 weeks at most. Cause for explosion is assumed to be faulty equipment and/or possibly human error (lack of employee safeguards/checks speculated in comments).

• Zero casualties. Small town with population less than 500 where event occurred was evacuated, which is appropriate response.

• Gaze line actually only really feeds mainly two "mid sized" cities in S. LV: Bauska, Tervete & Jekabpils. Basically like cutting gas off to a State Nature Park (Tervete) and Jekabpils is pretty small. About 1/20th the size of say Louisville Kentucky for comparison. You can walk across the entire city in less than 2 hours. Bauska half that.

• And NO.... Not all gas is piped through this line. We have other lines, and actually are still getting gaze from Russia until the end of the month (agreed upon during sanction discussions from last year).

• Breaking news for sure, but just one of the many common stereotypical industrial infrastructure failures that plague most of N.E. Europe unfortunately.

• Hope these bits of info shed some light on the subject. Paldies draugiem!

Resident Potatohead reporting for duty! AMA!

Not so dire a situation. Pipeline is used at minimal flow during the winter.

• As the article states, this is a predominately seasonal pipeline and minimally used during the Winter months.

• Repairs will take appx 1-2 weeks at most. Cause for explosion is assumed to be faulty equipment and/or possibly human error (lack of employee safeguards/checks speculated in comments).

• Zero casualties. Small town with population less than 500 where event occurred was evacuated, which is appropriate response.

• Gaze line actually only really feeds mainly two "mid sized" cities in S. LV: Tervete & Jekabpils. Basically like cutting gas off to a State Nature Park (Tervete) and Jekabpils is pretty small. About 1/20th the size of say Louisville Kentucky for comparison. You can walk across the entire city in less than 2 hours.

• And NO.... Not all gas is piped through this line. We have other lines, and actually are still getting gaze from Russia until the end of the month (agreed upon during sanction discussions from last year).

• Breaking news for sure, but just one of the many common stereotypical industrial infrastructure failures that plague most of N.E. Europe unfortunately.

• Hope these bits of info shed some light on the subject. Paldies draugiem!

Resident Potatohead reporting for duty! AMA!

Not so dire a situation. Pipeline is used at minimal flow during the winter.

• As the article states, this is a predominately seasonal pipeline and minimally used during the Winter months.

• Repairs will take appx 1-2 weeks at most. Cause for explosion is assumed to be faulty equipment and/or possibly human error (lack of employee safeguards/checks speculated in comments).

• Zero casualties. Small town where event occurred was evacuated, which is appropriate response.

• Gaze line actually only really feeds mainly two "mid sized" cities in S. LV: Tervete & Jekabpils. Basically like cutting gas off to a State Nature Park (Tervete) and Jekabpils is pretty small. About 1/20th the size of say Louisville Kentucky for comparison. You can walk across the entire city in less than 2 hours.

• And NO.... Not all gas is piped through this line. We have other lines, and actually are still getting gaze from Russia until the end of the month (agreed upon during sanction discussions from last year).

• Breaking news for sure, but just one of the many common stereotypical industrial infrastructure failures that plague most of N.E. Europe unfortunately.

• Hope these bits of info shed some light on the subject. Paldies draugiem!

Resident Vatnik reporting for duty! AMA!

Not so dire a situation. Pipeline is used at minimal flow during the winter.

• As the article states, this is a predominately seasonal pipeline and minimally used during the Winter months.

• Repairs will take appx 1-2 weeks at most. Cause for explosion is assumed to be faulty equipment and/or possibly human error (lack of employee safeguards/checks speculated in comments).

• Zero casualties. Small town where event occurred was evacuated, which is appropriate response.

• Gaze line actually only really feeds mainly two "mid sized" cities in S. LV: Tervete & Jekabpils. Basically like cutting gas off to a State Nature Park (Tervete) and Jekabpils is pretty small. About 1/20th the size of say Louisville Kentucky for comparison. You can walk across the entire city in less than 2 hours.

• And NO.... Not all gas is piped through this line. We have other lines, and actually are still getting gaze from Russia until the end of the month (agreed upon during sanction discussions from last year).

• Breaking news for sure, but just one of the many common stereotypical industrial infrastructure failures that plague most of N.E. Europe unfortunately.

• Hope these bits of info shed some light on the subject. Paldies draugiem!