Project Profile
Value: US$10.3 billion
Location: Russia to Germany
Length: 1,224 km long
Annual transmission capacity: Approx. 27.5 billion m³
Start-up year: late 2019
The NEGP will run from Vyborg on Russia\'s Baltic coast to Germany\'s Baltic coast, the Greifswald region being provisionally earmarked as landfall. The pipeline bypass the Baltic states and Poland. The pipeline will instead cross Finland, Sweden and Denmark. The project will comprise of two 48\" diameter 1,224 km long pipelines. It is planned to be commissioned initially consisting of a single pipeline with an annual transmission capacity of approx. 27.5 billion m³. The project will also see the laying of a second pipeline and doubling of the transmission capacity to approx. 55 billion m³ per annum. Project will also include a service platform for the twin gas export pipelines. The platform topsides weigh an estimated 4,000-5,000 tonnes, with the jacket to weigh between 2,000-2,500 tonnes. The platform will provide maintenance and operation facilities for the two 1,200km gas pipelines and will be located around 48km east of the small island of Gotska Sandoen and 68km northeast of island of Gotland. Nord Stream’s first pipeline is scheduled for completion in 2011. The construction of the second pipeline started in spring 2011, and it is scheduled to be operational in 2012.
Operator:
Nord Stream AG: Joint Venture consisting of:
Gazprom: 51% interest
E.ON Ruhrgas AG: 15.5% interest
Wintershall: 15.5% interest
N.V. Nederlands Gasunie: 9% interest
GDF Suez Group: 9% interest
Contractors:
Kvaerner: Delivery of onshore facilities
Boskalis and Van Oord: Rock placement services
Wasco Energy: Nord Stream 2 Pipe Coating and Storage Contract
Next Geosolutions: Contracted to carry out unexploded ordnance identification (UXO) surveys on the two new pipelines.
MMT: Responsible for inspection of both lines of the Nord Stream Pipeline running through the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany.
Allseas: Pipelay contract and installation engineering
Consortium to supply 65% of the second strand of pipeline and 75% of the first strand of offshore pipe:
Europipe GmbH
Mülheim Pipecoating GmbH
DeepOcean: Inspect the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea
Dresser-Rand Company: DATUM compressors for the Portovaya Station
Dominion Gas: Welding gases and equipment
Eupec GmbH: Pipeline coating services
Gasum: Build a spur off the main pipeline, to go across territorial waters in Finland
KPMG: Calculating regulated transport tariffs
linklaters CIS: Advisor on a range of agreements for the rental of transport capacity
Partnership for construction works of rock beds and berms:
Boskalis Westminster
Tideway Alliance
Partnership for dredging work on pipeline route:
Rohde Nielsen
Boskalis Westminster
PetrolValves: Four gate valves
Ramboll: Environmental Impact Assessment
Rolls Royce: 8 aeroderivative gas turbines for the Portovaya Station
Saipem SpA: Pipelay contract
Sumy Frunze NPO: Four gas-compressor units to Grizovetskaya compressor station
Siirtec Nigi: Gas treatment unit
Stroigazmontazh: Build the Babayevskaya and Gryazovetskaya compressor stations
Sumitomo: 10% of second strand of the pipeline
Technip: Four tie-ins on the pipelines
United metallurgical Company (OMK): 25% of second strand of the pipeline
Vyska Steel Works: 25% of the first strand of the pipeline
Voest Alpine: Heavy plates for the pipeline
MMT (Sweden): Contract to perform two surveys this summer in the Baltic Sea for Nord Stream AG to assess the impact of the two parallel Nord Stream gas trunklines on near-seabed currents in the Finnish section through observation of potential localized scour and sedimentation and to determine seabed sediment features, obstructions and sediment characteristics the company will use a remotely operated TV-mounted side scan sonar system.
Voestalpine: Has already supplied 170,000 tonnes line-pipe plates for the first part of the offshore gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea between 2008 and 2010. Under the new contract, the group will produce several hundred thousand tonnes for Nord Stream 2. (April, 2016)
Wah Seong Corporation (WSC) (Malaysia): Supply pipe coating services for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. (September, 2016)
- Provision of concrete weight coating and storing of pipes.
Allseas: Pipelay deal
Sub Contractors:
Blue Water Shipping: Transport, handling and storage of 113,000 of the pipes.
M² Subsea: Hired to supply the Go Electra vessel with ROVs and personnel to support survey work.
DNV (Det Norske Veritas): Monitor and test Saipem\'s activites
NCS Survey