Boskalis/Tideway contracted for Nord Stream post-lay

The Nord Stream consortium has contracted the Dutch joint venture Boskalis-Tideway Offshore for post-lay rock placement. Work on the $133-million contract is due to start in 2011 and should be completed in 2012. Various pipelay contractors are installing the Nord Stream trunklines, which will take gas from fields in northern Russia through the Baltic Sea to mainland Germany.