Name and Location
Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, Russia.
Client
Nord Stream 2, which includes Gazprom (50%), BASF/Wintershall (10%), Engie (10%), Uniper (10%), OMV (10%) and Shell (10%).
Project Description
Nord Stream is the direct connection between the world’s largest gas reserves in Russia (47-trillion cubic metres) and the European Union gas transmission system.
The project will complement the existing gas transportation routes – the pipelines through Ukraine, the Yamal-Europe and Nord Stream 1 pipelines, and the pipelines planned through the Black Sea.
Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines will stretch for about 1 200 km, from the Ust-Luga area of the Leningrad region of Russia, across the Baltic Sea to the German coast near Greifswald, without an intermediate compressor station.
As with the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, each pipeline will have a design capacity of 27.5-billion cubic metres of gas a year.
Comprising individual pipe joints of 12 m, each line of Nord Stream 2 will require about one-hundred thousand 24 t concrete weight coated steel pipes laid on the seabed.
The pipelines will have a constant internal diameter of 1 153 mm.
Specialised vessels handling the entire welding and pipe laying process will conduct the pipe laying.
Value
The project will cost about €8-billion.
Duration
The project is expected to be commissioned at the end of 2019.
Latest Developments
None stated.
Key Contracts and Suppliers
None stated.
On Budget and on Time?
Not stated.
Contact Details for Project Information
Nord Stream 2, tel +41 79 676 56 24 or email info@nord-stream2.com.