Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee Alexei Miller briefed Vladimir Putin on the progress with the Nord Stream and South Stream gas pipeline projects. The President also asked Miller to continue drawing up the projects for the Yamal-Europe 2 gas pipeline and a branch gas pipeline to Kaliningrad Region. Read below the full transcript of the [...]
The Danish Energy Agency yesterday granted Nord Stream permission to operate the second of its twin pipelines that will transport natural gas from Russia to Europe. The permit to operate the first pipeline was granted a year ago, in July 2011. The operations permit was granted as Nord Stream has met and fulfilled all the [...]
A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Dr. Johannes Teyssen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of E.ON took place Friday as part of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2012. The meeting addressed the bilateral cooperation outlook placing an emphasis on the issues of Russian gas supplies to Germany. They [...]
Nord Stream started today the first of two all-important underwater tie-ins of its second gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea. In this complex two-week-long offshore operation, two of the pipeline’s three sections will be joined together 80 metres underwater inside a hyperbaric welding habitat on the seabed off the coast of Finland. Nord Stream has [...]
The Shareholders of Nord Stream AG have asked the company to conduct a feasibility study of possible options to further increase the capacities to transport natural gas from Russia to the EU through the Baltic Sea. Over the next eight months, Nord Stream will make an assessment of various criteria of up to two potential [...]
Nord Stream on Saturday completed the process of adapting the control system to integrate the two lines into a single automated twin-pipeline gas transport system. Following the two-week process that included adapting and testing the integrated control system for the twin pipelines, the required certifications were received and valves were re-opened on April 28, resuming [...]
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Nord Stream AG announces the successful completion of its complex international logistics programme. This award-winning green logistics concept enabled the most efficient and environmentally-sound way of supplying to the pipe-laying vessels the 200,000 24-tonne concrete weight coated (CWC) pipes needed for Nord Stream’s twin natural gas pipelines through the Baltic Sea. Twelve-tonne steel pipes were [...]
Yesterday, Gazprom Management Committee Chairman Alexey Miller reported to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on the completion of the Nord Stream gas pipeline’s second string laying. “We have initiated startup and adjustment operations. In September the second string will be filled with buffer gas and in October we will launch commercial gas supplies,” said Alexey [...]
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The Nord Stream Project took another major step forward today with the completion of offshore pipelay of the second of its twin 1,224-kilometre gas pipelines through the Baltic Sea ahead of schedule. Following extensive pre-commissioning and commissioning, Line 2 is scheduled to begin transporting gas towards the end of 2012 as part of a fully [...]
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Nord Stream AG won the inaugural “Pipeline Project of the Year” award at the 2012 European Gas Conference. The award, which was presented by The Energy Exchange in conjunction with Natural Gas Europe, recognises Nord Stream’s achievement in starting to make its contribution to energy security in the European Union on time and within budget. [...]
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