Russian Oil and Gas Industry: News #3

Continue to work on it and if they damage anything, sue them or strip that nations assets in Russia till they pay up.

Also, send Russian warships to the area as well. Make it clear if they are operating in Ditch waters, that the Dutch are responsible. If it's international waters, move your ship into place.

It ain't rocket science.

Danish waters. Problem is Russia can´t just send armed ships there, but they could deploy some "civilan" armed guards on the ships, with a bunch of Kornet missiles just in case Greenpiss comes along.

Funny how my autocorrect said ditch instead of Danish.

But yeah. Just make it costly for the west in this. They hate to lose money

Exclusive Economic Zone, not territorial waters, see no reason why VMF cannot be deployed, when they cross those waters all the time...

Onshore branch of Nord Stream 2 completed in Germany
https://biz.liga.net/ekonomika/tek/novosti/v-germanii-dostroili-suhoputnyy-otvod-severnogo-potoka-2

In Germany, they completed the EUGAL pipeline, which is supposed to transport gas from the Nord Stream-2 pipeline by land. This was reported by the press service of the German gas transmission operator Gascade Gastransport GmbH.

https://www.rt.com/business/518984-russia-lng-capacity-growth/

Russia says LNG production capacity could jump THREEFOLD by 2035

Russia’s government approved on Monday the country’s long-term development program for liquefied natural gas (LNG), expecting production capacity to rise threefold from current levels to 140 million tons per year by 2035.

“The program is based on a comprehensive approach, aimed at diversification of gas supply sources and first of all at an active use of resources of the Arctic shelf and the Far East,” Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at a meeting with deputy prime ministers on Monday, as carried by news agency TASS.

Russia is also targeting increased LNG exports, considering the expectations of sustained growth in LNG demand and trade globally, Mishustin said.

Global LNG demand is set to nearly double from 360 million tons last year to 700 million tons by 2040, thanks to continued solid demand from Asia and a rise in gas use for powering hard-to-electrify sectors, Shell, the biggest LNG trader, said in its annual LNG Outlook 2021 last month.

1 million tons of LNG is equal to 1.36 billion cubic meters of gas. So 140 million tons of LNG is 190.4 billion cubic meters of gas. That means that
Russia will have more LNG export capacity than its current exports of pipeline gas to the EU of around 150 bcm.

It also means that Russia today has 63.4 billion cubic meters of gas export capacity in the form of LNG. This shows that Russia's LNG export capacity
growth has been spectacular. Washington's attempt to force Russia to ship gas through Banderastan is a total joke.

Akademik Chersky went along the second string of Nord Stream 2

On Cosmonautics Day and the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space, the Akademik Chersky pipelayer began moving along the route of the second string of Nord Stream 2. The vessel will lay 85 kilometers in Danish and German waters.

Today, April 12, the Akademik Chersky pipelayer began moving along the route of line A of Nord Stream 2. According to the navigation portals Marinetraffic and Vesselfinder, the vessel took off near the point indicated by the Danish Maritime Authority as the starting point for construction.

Judging by the route of the pipelayer and the Murman vessel, which carries out underwater monitoring, the end of the gas pipeline was previously lifted aboard the Akademik Chersky.

By 10.00 Moscow time, the ship had passed about two hundred meters. Whether it resumed laying, however, or is still preparing to start work is unknown. Nord Stream 2 AG replied that they could not provide detailed information on the construction and would promptly inform about further plans. Earlier, the company clarified that in April in the area of ​​the island of Bornholm, the pipelayer continues to prepare for construction.

Line A contains the longest unfinished section of Nord Stream 2. In Danish waters "Akademik Chersky" will have to lay 68.5 kilometers, and in German waters - 16.5 kilometers. The operator of the project indicated that it plans to complete the laying of the string in Danish waters by the end of September. Obviously, the timing was taken with a margin.

In May-September last year, the vessel underwent modernization in the German port of Mukran, which is the logistics center of Nord Stream 2 in Germany. And even earlier, on February 5, Gazprom Flot, which was then the owner of the vessel, completed a tender to equip the vessel. The technical documentation stated that after the work, the productivity of the pipelayer should be at least 120-160 joints (up to 2 km per day). Thus, the ship can lay down by the end of May.

However, as the experience of the Fortuna barge, which is completing line B, shows, the weather can make adjustments. Thus, the ship resumed the completion of the Danish section with a length of 49 kilometers in early February, but was forced to stand for at least three weeks due to storms and rearrangement of anchors. The speed of laying "Fortuna" on favorable days is more than 1,100 meters per day, but due to stops the average pace of work is kept at the level of 500 meters. By April 12, the barge had laid 32.5 km. The project operator indicated in the updated work schedule for the Danish Energy Office that the average pipe-laying speed would be 400 meters per day. The document said that by the end of May, "Fortuna" will complete work in Danish waters, and by July it will hand over the German section of 13.9 km.

For the coming week, the Swedish Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology (SMHI) predicts relatively calm weather. On some days, the wind speed can reach 12 meters per second. In addition, the Baltic Sea begins to warm up and fogs promise in the southern region.

US authorities, meanwhile, continue to threaten the Baltic gas pipeline project from Russia to Germany. The new administration intends to use all available levers to prevent the completion of Nord Stream 2, Joseph Giordano-Scholz, spokesman for the US Embassy in Germany, told Tagesspiegel.

“We will continue to register any organization involved in any potentially unsanctioned activity, and made it clear that any company risks sanctions if it participates in Nord Stream 2,” the diplomat said. Earlier, a report on the project was submitted to Congress, but only the Fortuna barge and its owner, KBT-Rus, were sanctioned, which were already under American restrictions. The administration will next submit its Nord Stream 2 report to US lawmakers in May.

Recall that after the introduction of the first sanctions against the project in December 2019, the Swiss Allseas left it. After that, Gazprom uses Russian vessels.

https://viysq5tyczhy54va65gm2d6ogq--k-politika-ru.translate.goog/akademik-cherskij-poshel-po-vtoroj-nitke-severnogo-potoka-2/?utm_source=finobzor.ru

JohninMK wrote:Lost track of this. Is it movement?

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Russia will build a new gas pipeline in mongolian territory, the pipeline will cross Mongolia and be a continuation of the new Power of Siberia 2 project, Gazprom's press service reported..

This has been talked about for a long time. But it is still in the planning stages.

The final part of the completion of SP-2 has begun. Akademik Chersky has begun laying the largest string of the gas pipeline.

https://zen.yandex.ru/media/id/5cb9e3053ee20600b4598ec8/finalnaia-chast-zaversheniia-sp2-nachalas-akademik-cherskii-nachal-ukladku-samoi-bolshoi-nitki-gazoprovoda-60748c803b8d083f12db2dfb

What some were looking forward to, while others hoped that would not happen. On April 12, the Akademik Chersky pipelayer began laying the second string of Nord Stream 2. He needs to lay 85 kilometers in Danish and German waters.

The end of the gas pipeline was lifted aboard the Akademik Chersky, and the completion process began, and by 10:00 Moscow time the first 200 meters of the pipe were laid

Kiko wrote:Russian Vessel Starts Nord Stream 2 Pipelaying in Danish Waters, by Oleg Burunov for Sputniknews.

Late last year, the Danish Maritime Authority gave the green light to the pipe-layer Fortuna to begin work for the Nord Stream 2 project in Denmark's exclusive economic zone.

Russia's Akademik Cherskiy has started laying pipes for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project in Danish waters, where the Fortuna pipe-layer has been working since early February, according to project operator Nord Stream 2 AG.

"After successfully passing sea trials, the vessel Akademik Cherskiy started pipelaying work today in the exclusive economic zone of Denmark. The Fortuna barge continues to lay pipe", the company said in a statement on Tuesday.

The statement follows Nord Stream 2 AG's announcement last month that after testing in the Kaliningrad Region, the Akademik Cherskiy would join the laying of Nord Stream 2 pipes in Danish waters.

The Russian ship Fortuna is already working on the pipelaying as it completes construction of the second branch of the gas pipeline (Line B) in Denmark. The Akademik Cherskiy will deal with the pipelaying of the first branch of Nord Stream 2 (Line A).

The pipeline aims to carry Russian natural gas to Germany across the Baltic Sea. It consists of two 1,230-kilometre (764-mile) lines with a combined capacity of 55 billion cubic metres of gas a year. The project's operator estimated earlier this year that only 148 kilometres (92 miles) were still to be completed.

The project is being financed by the Russian energy giant Gazprom, German energy companies Uniper and Wintershall, as well as Austria's OMV, France's Engie, and the Anglo-Dutch oil concern Shell.  

US Drive to Undermine Nord Stream 2

Washington and some of its European allies have repeatedly tried to torpedo the project, with US lawmakers already slapping two rounds of sanctions on Nord Stream 2, which prompted several European contractors, insurers, and certification firms to drop out.

Russia pledged to use its own pipelaying resources to wrap up the remaining 5 percent of the pipeline, which is described by Moscow as a purely economic project. The Kremlin views the US sanctions against Nord Stream 2 as an example of unfair competition meant to boost American liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to Europe.

The standpoint is echoed by German officials who have consistently defended Nord Stream 2 as a completely economic endeavour in spite of US pressure in the form of sanctions.

Last week, Chancellor Angela Merkel again stepped out in defence of Nord Stream 2 and of Russian gas supplies in general, saying she was perfectly aware that the conflict surrounding the pipeline was part of a broader "political struggle". In 2020, she pledged the project would be completed despite the threat of US sanctions.

Earlier this year, former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder stressed that the US should not be able to "dictate" Germany's energy policy, and suggested that Washington's interest was about selling its own "expensive and poorer quality" LNG.

https://sputniknews.com/business/202104271082738662-russian-vessel-starts-nord-stream-2-pipelaying-in-danish-waters/

Europe should just say to the US to **** off and do normal business with Russia. We need cheap and quality Russia gas and Germany knows this. So the Americans should just mind their own business.

Tass yesterday:
Akademik Chersky begins laying Nord Stream 2 in Danish waters
Barge Fortuna also continues pipe-laying

On April 27, the Akademik Chersky pipe-laying vessel began laying the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the territorial waters of Denmark. This is stated in the message of the operator of the Nord Stream 2 AG project.