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The representative of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline operator, Nord Stream 2 AG, said that the company will continue to work on laying a 2.6 km stretch.
Construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline may resume on December 5, German broadcaster NDR reported on November 28, citing a representative of the pipeline operator, Nord Stream 2 AG.
The Baltic Sea Inland Navigation and Waterways Authority in Stralsund, a coastal city in northern Germany, has announced the start of construction works for skippers south of the Adlergrund Marine Protected Area starting next Saturday, December 5. , and has asked for special care.
Nord Stream AG is considering installing a 2.6 km section on each of the pipes. Pipelaying vessels can cover this distance in a day or two, the company said.
It is not clear which ship will continue to operate. The specially equipped Russian ship “Akademik Chersky” did not begin to finish the construction of the gas pipeline and left for Kaliningrad on Friday 27 November.
It is still an open question whether this ship has the certificate required by Denmark, the NDR noted.
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. At first it was reported that the cost of the project was 9.9 billion euros, later, according to The New York Times, grew to nearly $ 11 billion.
As of December 2019, 93.5% of the pipeline had been completed, according to the official representative of the project operator, Nord Stream 2 AG, Jens Müller.
The authorities of the United States, 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 pipeline has been frozen since December 2019. The United States imposed sanctions on European contractorsparticipating in the project. Immediately afterwards, the Swiss company Allseas suspended the construction works of Nord Stream 2 and took its pipe laying vessels out of the Baltic Sea… Gazprom announced involving in the completion of the project Russian pipe tending.
July 21, 2020 House of Representatives, United States House of Representatives, approved the budget of the Ministry of Defense for the fiscal year 2021, which provides for new sanctions against Nord Stream 2. July 23 defense budget project approved by the Senate… The versions of the documents adopted by the House of Representatives and the Senate will be coordinated, after which they will be delivered to the President of the United States for his signature.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated already on September 1 that Nord Stream 2 will be completed despite threats from the US.… On September 8, he said that he would coordinate any action against Russia in connection with the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with European partners, but I have not decided if they are building a gas pipeline. On September 11, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline may freeze in reaction to the Navalny poisoning, but on October 17 he announced that the gas pipeline will be completed.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden declared a difficult position in “Nord Stream – 2”. He wants to stop this project forever.
