PARIS—European producers are getting ready for attainable natural-gas rationing that might drive them to close manufacturing amid fears that Russia is about to chop off gasoline deliveries through its important artery to Europe.
On Monday the Nord Stream pipeline, which runs 760 miles from northwest Russia below the Baltic Sea to Germany, will go into annual upkeep for 10 days, repairs which are routine in peaceable occasions. European officers say that Moscow, which has already cut gas deliveries to 40% of the pipeline’s capability, won’t carry it again on-line.
