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The Russian vessel Fortuna, included in the United States sanctions list, has resumed the laying of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
The Fortuna pipelayer has resumed construction of the Nord Stream 2 in Danish waters. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the project operator.
The company said they are working “in accordance with the approvals received.”
In 2020, the pipelayer laid 2.6 km of pipes in German waters, while about 120 km remained unfinished in Danish waters and about 28 km in Germany. The Danish government has agreed on the possibility of Fortuna’s work from January 15, the German permit for this vessel is valid until the end of May, the news agency noted.
On January 19, the US government published a list of sanctions, which included Russian pipelayer Fortuna, which is involved in the installation of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
Nord Stream 2 is a gas pipeline that is supposed to connect Russia with Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The length of the route is more than 1200 km, the capacity of the new gas pipeline will be 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The cost of the project was reported to be € 9.9 billion, is financed by the Russian “Gazprom” and five European companies: Anglo-Dutch Shell, German Wintershall and Uniper, French Engie and Austrian OMV.
Authorities in the USA, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia consider “Nord Stream 2” a threat to Europe’s energy security.
The construction of the gas pipeline began in 2018. In December 2019 fromconstruction froze because The United States imposed sanctions on European contractorsparticipating in the project. At that moment 93% of the pipeline was completed, reported the official pipeline operator Nord Stream 2 AG.
A year later, on December 11, 2020, construction resumed. Until the completion of the construction of two gas pipeline chains, a total of 160 km remain “with a little”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on December 17.
December 11 United States Senate after House of Representatives supported the country’s defense budget project by 2021, which provides for tougher sanctions against Nord Stream 2, but the US president Donald Trump vetoed it… January 1, 2021 in the US Congress. Trump is “easily vetoed”… 81 senators voted in favor, 13 against.
On January 19, the United States Department of the Treasury imposed new sanctions against companies involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. In particular, the sanctions affected the Russian ship Fortuna and its owner, the KVT-RUS company, as well as to the Rustanker company, the Maxim Gorky tanker and the Sierra tanker for the transportation of crude.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine welcomed this decision.
The Russian Gazprom allowed for the first time the possibility of suspension of the implementation or complete cancellation of the Nord Stream 2 project.
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