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The Danish Energy Agency has given permission to put the Nord Stream 2 pipeline into service, provided that at least one of the pipeline lines has been tested and verified.
On October 1, the Danish Energy Agency issued a permit to Nord Stream 2 AG to commission the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on the country’s continental shelf. This is stated in a message on the website of the Danish Energy Agency.
The permit lists the conditions necessary for the safe operation of the pipeline.
Commissioning of Nord Stream 2 can only take place if at least one of the pipes has been tested. This line must also be verified, indicated in the application.
“The permit is issued in accordance with section 2 of Executive Order No. 1520 of December 15, 2017 on the construction of pipelines in Danish territorial waters, on the Danish continental shelf and in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, according to which Denmark is obliged to authorize the construction and operation of transit pipelines “. , – said the regulator.
The company submitted an application for a permit to operate the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on November 18, 2019, the agency recalled.
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 initially reported to be € 9.9 billion, then, according to The New York Times, it grew to nearly $ 11 billion. It is financed in half by Russia’s Gazprom and five European companies: Anglo-Dutch Shell, German Wintershall and Uniper. , The French Engie and the Austrian OMV.
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.
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.
Construction of the pipeline has been frozen as the United States imposed sanctions on European contractors involved in the project in December 2019. Immediately after that, the Swiss company Allseas suspended construction work on Nord Stream 2 and removed its laying vessels. pipeline of the Baltic Sea. Gazprom announced involving in the completion of the project Russian pipe-string.
On July 21, 2020, the House of Representatives, the lower house of the US Congress, approved the Department of Defense budget for fiscal year 2021, which provides for new sanctions against Nord Stream 2. On July 23, the Senate approved the defense budget bill. 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 signature.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel claimed on September 1 that Nord Stream 2 would be completed despite threats from the United States. On September 8, she said that she would coordinate any action against Russia in relation to the Navalny poisoning with European partners, but has not yet decided whether they will affect the construction of the gas pipeline.
On September 11, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline could be frozen in response to the Navalny poisoning.
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