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  • Atlas bags Nord Stream 2 deal

    22 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    Atlas Professionals’ offshore management and quality control (QC) team has secured a frame agreement with Nord Stream 2, an international, six-company consortium constructing a natural gas pipeline from Northern Russia. The Nord Stream 2 project envisages construction of two offshore pipelines from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea with the aggregate annual capacity of […]

  • Nord Stream Publishes PID on Project Extension

    8 April 2013

    Nord Stream AG published the Project Information Document (PID) on the Extension project. The PID describes the project’s technical background and the suggested approach to assess its potential environmental and social impacts. It highlights the envisaged project in the context of the Espoo Convention in which the nations around the Baltic Sea consult each other […]

  • Nord Stream 2 shareholders accord struck

    4 September 2015

    Russian Gazprom, the German companies E.ON SE and BASF SE/Wintershall Holding, the Anglo-Dutch Royal Dutch Shell, the Austrian OMV and the French Engie (formerly GDF SUEZ), signed a shareholder agreement to implement the Nord Stream 2 project.

  • Nord Stream to Shut Baltic Sea Pipeline for Maintenance

    1 August 2016
    Operations & Maintenance

    Nord Stream AG informed that it will be conducting long-planned annual maintenance work on its twin gas pipeline system in the Baltic Sea between August 09 and 17, 2016. This routine maintenance work will require a temporary shutdown of both lines at once. The full capacity of the pipeline system will be available again by […]

  • Nord Stream Starts Final Load Tests

    6 November 2013

    Nord Stream AG is currently conducting a load test on both lines of the fully-integrated gas transportation system. The industry-standard load tests serve to confirm reliability of the pipelines. The completion of the NEL-Pipeline in early November allows for a test phase involving the connected gas transportation systems. The load test phase started on Tuesday, […]

  • Nord Stream 2 Installation in Finland Complete

    26 August 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Installation of the Nord Stream 2 twin pipelines in the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone has been finalized with the end of pipelaying on the second line of the 374-kilometer long  section. The first line was completed in Finnish waters in April 2019. In total, to date over 1,800 kilometers of the Nord Stream 2 pipelines […]

  • Gazprom, OMV talk Nord Stream II

    31 August 2015

    Gazprom’s head Alexey Miller, and Rainer Seele, Chairman of the Executive Board of OMV met in Moscow on Friday. They addressed the issues of the Nord Stream II project implementation, particularly, the preparations for the shareholders’ agreement on setting up a joint venture for constructing the new gas pipeline, according to a statement issued by […]

  • Nord Stream Line 2 Hits the Seafloor

    18 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    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 […]

  • Sweden says No! to Nord Stream 2 pipeline

    15 December 2016

    Nord Stream 2 pipeline project that will carry Russian gas to the EU through the Baltic Sea, has hit a stumbling block. Namely, the authorities of the Swedish Region Gotland and the municipality Karlshamn have decided not to sign an agreement for the utilization of their respective harbours – Slite and Karlshamn for the storage […]

  • Nord Stream: EC initiative ‘entirely unnecessary’

    12 June 2017

    Nord Stream 2, the Gazprom-controlled operator of the planned Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, has criticized the European Commissions request for mandate to negotiate with Russia an agreement on the project. The European Commission on Friday adopted a request to the Council of the European Union for a mandate to negotiate […]

  • Companies Ink Nord Stream 2 Deal

    4 September 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    The companies involved in the Nord Stream 2, which should boost supply of natural gas to the EU market, have signed a Shareholders’ Agreement, setting up a new project company, New European Pipeline AG, to develop the export pipeline project trough the Baltic Sea. According to the document, Gazprom will own a 51 per cent […]

  • Switzerland: Nord Stream Completes Logistics Programme

    25 April 2012

    Nord Stream AG announced 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 […]

  • Nord Stream: Underwater Noise Levels Assessed

    18 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    A study has been conducted in cooperation between Nord Stream, the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) and the Swedish Nature Protection Agency, in order to establish the underwater noise levels in the sea close to the Natura 2000 area at Norra Midsjöbanken, to the south of Gotland. Noise emanating from regular commercial maritime traffic as […]

  • Nord Stream Conducts Final Load Tests

    6 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Nord Stream AG is currently conducting a load test on both lines of the fully-integrated gas transportation system. The industry-standard load tests serve to confirm reliability of the pipelines. The completion of the NEL-Pipeline in early November allows for a test phase involving the connected gas transportation systems. The load test phase started on Tuesday, […]

  • Nord Stream to Shut Pipeline on April 15 (Russia)

    13 April 2012

      Nord Stream is entering an intensive period during which its engineers and partners will take key steps towards completing the integrated twin pipeline system capable of transporting up to 55 billion cubic metres (bcm) of Russian gas a year to Europe through the Baltic Sea, for at least 50 years: control systems will be […]

  • Nord Stream 2 Hits Sweden Setback

    16 December 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Nord Stream 2 project has reached an obstacle in Sweden after its government reportedly disapproved of plans to lease harbours in Slite and in Karlshamn. The construction of this new twin pipeline system requires logistical support from harbours on the Baltic coast, including the above mentioned, where concrete weight coating and interim pipe storage facilities would be […]

  • Nord Stream Provides Environmental Monitoring Results

    10 October 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

      In relation to the construction and operation of the natural gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, Nord Stream conducts ambitious environmental and socio-economic monitoring in each country through whose waters the pipeline passes. Furthermore, for the purpose of providing a transparent overview, Nord Stream has taken the initiative to provide a compilation of the […]

  • Gazprom Considers Nord Stream System Expansion

    7 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Gazprom headquarters hosted a meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee and Matthias Warnig, Managing Director of Nord Stream AG on 5 February. The parties addressed the possibility of building up capacities of the Nord Stream gas transmission system via the Baltic Sea by constructing one or two additional strings. Gazprom […]

  • Russia: Nord Stream Completes “Golden Weld”

    19 August 2011
    Business & Finance

    The so-called “Golden Weld” – the final weld connecting its offshore and onshore parts – was completed on the first of Nord Stream’s twin pipelines today. The “Golden Weld” thus links the Russian landfall in Portovaya Bay with the pipeline across the Baltic Sea. In the coming days, Line 1 will be ready to be […]

  • Nord Stream Ends Pipeline System Test

    5 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Nord Stream has successfully completed the final 30-day test of the pipeline system as of 6:00 CET today. The industry-standard test confirms the safety and reliability of the integrated twin-pipeline gas transportation system. The completion of the NEL-Pipeline in early November allowed for a test phase involving the connected pipelines. Since the start of operations […]

  • Nord Stream Pipeline Survey Checks Out

    1 July 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Nord Stream has completed an external inspection of the two pipelines. The job was executed using an ROV, equipped with digital cameras, specific sensors and operated from a dedicated support vessel. The visual and instrumental (geophysical) inspection was performed on the whole length of the pipelines through the Baltic Sea. The objective of the inspection survey […]

  • Agreement reached on Nord Stream 2 pipeline

    4 September 2015

    Representatives of Gazprom, BASF, E.On, Engie, OMV and Shell on Thursday signed a shareholders’ agreement on implementation of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project to enhance supply of natural gas to the European Union’s market. The project will be developed by the new project company New European Pipeline AG. According to the document, Gazprom will […]

  • Nord Stream’s Low Environmental Impact Confirmed

    24 September 2012
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Nord Stream conducts an extensive environmental and socio-economic monitoring programme to determine any impact of the construction and operation of the pipelines. The 2011 annual report, the second of five such reports planned, has now been published. The report summarises the national reports for Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany respectively. All the results are […]

  • Nord Stream 2 Resolves Swedish Port Hurdle

    1 February 2017

    Following reports that Sweden’s municipalities Karlshamn and Slite might not allow the use of their respective ports for pipe storage during the execution phase of the Nord Stream 2 project, Karlshamn has approved the use of its port.  The Nord Stream 2 pipeline will carry natural gas through the Baltic Sea directly from reserves in Russia to the neighboring EU […]

  • Russia: Temporary Shutdown of Nord Stream Pipeline

    13 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    From 13 December, 6 am CET to 15 December, 6 pm CET, the gas flow through the Nord Stream Pipeline will be temporarily suspended due to planned maintenance works at Gazprom’s connecting pipeline. During the shutdown time, Nord Stream will also carry out maintenance activities at the installations on the German landfall. In particular, the […]