Incident in the largest gas storage facility

deflagration

Deflagration at the largest German gas storage facility – storage stopped

After a deflagration, the storage of gas in the largest German storage facility in the north-western state of Lower Saxony has been stopped. The authorities did not expect the incident on Tuesday to have any impact on the gas supply in Germany.

The storage system had been shut down as a precaution, the German Federal Network Agency announced in the evening. Experts from the operating company and an employee of the supervisory authority – the State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG) – are on the spot at the plant in Rehden to determine the cause of the deflagration.

There is no evidence of external influence, said a LBEG spokesman. Such an incident does not happen often. But: “Where technology is in use, something like this can happen.”