“This might be a ploy to get a compressor drive engine back from Siemens for the Nord Stream operation:”
That was released last week. Try to keep up.
A gas turbine requires a major overhaul every seven or so years.
Now we can ask the question: Why didn't the Nord Stream operators contract with a Russian firm to do the maintenance, wouldn't that be less expensive than having Siemens do it?
The answer: the Nord Stream operators just can't expect a bunch of ignorant peons to understand a machine like some of our boys..