Gazprom is no longer the owner of the vessel-pipelayer “Akademik Chersky”, main applicant for the completion of the pipeline “Nord stream-2”. The new owner of the vessel is unknown.
“Akademik Chersky”, Russia’s only laying vessel with dynamic positioning system on Board that satisfies all the stringent technical requirements of the European Union on the construction of pipeline the open sea. Until June he was listed on balance “Gazprom fleet”, but in early summer, has changed the owner and was owned by the Samara thermal power property Fund (STIF), which was part of the group “Gazprom”. In the latest list of affiliates of the gas monopoly from 30 June this year of the STIF and its owners anymore. However, according to RBC, the possibility exists that the company has exercised its right not to disclose some data on the basis of the sanctions risk.
Now the U.S. sanctions, even if tightening at the completion of the Russian pipeline “Academician Cherskiy” should not affect Gazprom, as owner of the vessel. Risks still remain, but in the latest edition of amendments to the defense budget of the United States, sanctions apply only to owners of vessels that can be used for operations in the Baltic sea, as well as insurance and repair companies providing their services. Now these amendments are pending in the U.S. Congress.
At the end of last year the gas pipeline “Nord stream-2” has not been able to complete because of U.S. sanctions. Under the first American restrictions were marine vessels engaged in pipe-laying at depths greater than 30 meters. After the imposition of sanctions Washington has demanded that European contractors to immediately stop construction.
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“and the stream-2” includes two threads of a gas pipeline from Russia through the Baltic sea to Germany. The total capacity will be 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The pipeline passes through the territorial waters or exclusive economic zones of Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Today stacked more than 2 thousand 300 kilometers of pipes, i.e. 94% of the total length of the pipeline.
