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Nord Stream (German–English mixed expression for "North Stream"; Russian: Северный поток, Severny potok) is a network of offshore natural gas pipelines which run under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany to provide Western Europe with natural gas. It comprises two separate projects, Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2.
Both Nord Stream 1 and 2 were however pressurized with gas. [36] The Nord Stream 2 pipeline contained the equivalent of an estimated 150 million cubic metres (5.3 billion cubic feet) to 300 million cubic metres (11 billion cubic feet) of gas, pressurized to over 100 bar, at the time of the explosions. [37] [38] [39]
The Nord Stream offshore pipeline is operated by Nord Stream AG. [21] [33] It runs from the Vyborg compressor station at Portovaya Bay along the bottom of the Baltic Sea to Greifswald, Germany. The length of the subsea pipeline is 1,222 km (759 mi), of which 1.5 km (0.93 mi) are on Russian inland, 121.8 km (65.8 nmi) in Russian territorial ...
Nord Stream 2, fully owned by Gazprom and operated by Nord Stream 2 AG, was completed in September 2021 at a cost of $11 billion, but was never put into operation because Germany had cancelled ...
Nord Stream 2, built under the Baltic Sea by Russia's state-controlled Gazprom to pump natural gas from the Arctic to Germany, was damaged on Sept. 26, 2022, in the wake of Russia's invasion of ...
Though neither pipeline was operational at the time, both lines were filled with gas under pressure. Prior to Russia's war in Ukraine, the Nord Stream 1 pipeline had supplied roughly 35% of the ...
Nord Stream 2 (German–English mixed expression for "North Stream 2"; Russian: Северный поток — 2) is a 1,234-kilometre-long (767 mi) natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany running through the Baltic Sea, [2] financed by Gazprom and several European energy companies.
A Swedish prosecutor said that the investigation on damaged Nord Stream gas pipelines revealed traces of explosives at the site, confirming sabotage. The Russian state-owned Gazprom majorly owns ...