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Russian pipe laying barge “Fortune“ He completed the tests at sea and began laying the pipeline. “Nord Stream – 2“ in Danish waters, writes RBC on February 6 in reference to the statement from the project operator Nord Stream 2 AG.
All work, as specified in the company, is carried out in accordance with the corresponding permits. Nord Stream 2 I promised to tell him bMore detailed information on the construction and other plans for the construction of the 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 is reported to be € 9.9 billion, it is financed by Russia’s Gazprom and five European companies: Anglo-Dutch Shell, German Wintershall and Uniper, French Engie and Austrian OMV.
Authorities in the United States, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia consider Nord Stream 2 a threat to Europe’s energy security.
Construction of the gas pipeline began in 2018. In December 2019, construction was frozen when the United States imposed sanctions on European contractors involved in the project. At that time, 93% of the pipeline was completed, the official pipeline operator Nord Stream 2 AG reported.
A year later, on December 11, 2020, construction resumed. Until the construction of two gas pipeline chains is finished, there are “a little” left for a total of 160 kilometers, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on December 17.
On January 19, 2021, the US Department of the Treasury introduced new sanctions against companies involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. In particular, the sanctions affected the Fortuna vessel and its owner, the KVT-RUS company. , as well as the Rustanker company, the Maxim Gorky tanker and the Sierra tanker for the transportation of crude. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry welcomed this decision, and the Russian “Gazprom” allowed for the first time the possibility of suspension of implementation or complete cancellation of the project.
However, on January 24 it emerged that Fortuna had resumed construction of the Nord Stream 2 in Danish waters. In 2020, the pipelayer laid 2.6 km of pipes in German waters, about 120 km left unfinished in Danish waters and about 28 km in Germany.
The Handelsblatt newspaper wrote on February 1 that Biden could lift the sanctions against Nord Stream 2 if it received assurances that Russia would not use the pipeline against Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. The State Department denied this information, stating that they would interfere with the construction of Nord Stream 2. Earlier, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that Biden considered the pipeline “bad business for Europe.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is ready to enter into negotiations with the Biden administration on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. In her opinion, extraterritorial sanctions against the pipeline project are not the best way to solve the problem.
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