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Russia to Restart Gas Supplies to Georgia (Saturday)

...On Friday, the gas workers plan to move to assembling the damaged section of the pipe ... Also a series of technical steps will be completed for preparing the drainage system," Vasily Zinovyev, director of gas monopoly Gazprom's subsidiary in the region, told Interfax.

"We are moving to the stage of pumping gas, and then work will be continued ... We will move to pumping gas on Saturday at the least," said Zinovyev, adding that getting gas to consumers would take some time.

Definitely appears to be considerable foot-dragging going on. SOP is for the repair section to be fabricated while the prep work is going on. After the repaired section is installed, then the line needs to be hydrostatically tested to check for leaks, then drained and the gas gets turned on slowly & the line is brought up to pressure. Normally, this is a 24/7, balls to the wall situ.

[GarySpFc]

Definitely appears to be considerable foot-dragging going on. SOP is for the repair section to be fabricated while the prep work is going on. After the repaired section is installed, then the line needs to be hydrostatically tested to check for leaks, then drained and the gas gets turned on slowly & the line is brought up to pressure. Normally, this is a 24/7, balls to the wall situ.

In another article it was reported that after fixing the pipe it developed a leak, which called for them to flush the pipe prior to fixing said leak to avoid an explosion. The foot-dragging is actually propaganda to make the Russians look bad.