Finland’s Vaasa Administrative Court Decision Rejects Appeals on the Water Permit

Finland’s Vaasa Administrative Court has ruled on the appeals made against the Water Permit in Finland. According to the Court decision, the three appeals against the decision of the Finnish permit authority to grant the ...

World’s Largest Pipelay Vessel Starts Laying Pipe for Nord Stream in the Gulf of Finland

Allseas’ Solitaire, the world’s largest pipelay vessel, has started to lay the Gulf of Finland section of the 1,224 kilometre Nord Stream natural gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. Nord Stream’s Deputy Director Construction Ruurd...

World’s Largest Pipelay Vessel Enters the Baltic Sea to Lay Key Part of Nord Stream Pipeline

Allseas’ Solitaire, the world’s largest pipelay vessel, has passed under Storebælt Bridge, the Great Belt Bridge, on its way to construct a key section of the 1,224 kilometre Nord Stream natural gas pipeline in the Baltic...

World’s Largest Pipelay Vessel Ready to Lay Nord Stream Pipeline in Gulf of Finland

Allseas’ Solitaire, the world’s largest pipelay vessel, left Rotterdam after being retrofitted in preparation to lay a section of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline in the Gulf of Finland. The dynamically-positioned pipelay...

Construction of the Nord Stream Pipeline Continues in Finnish Waters

Construction of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline will continue in the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), as the Castoro Sei pipelay vessel returned to lay the pipeline in the western part of the EEZ.

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100,000 Pipes Concrete Weight Coated for the Nord Stream Pipeline

One hundred thousand of the pipes needed for the Nord Stream Pipeline have now been concrete weight coated. In total about 202,000 concrete weight coated steel pipes will be needed for the two strings of the 1,224 kilometres...

Nord Stream’s First String Pulled Ashore in Portovaya Bay

Nord Stream construction at the Russian landfall has reached an important milestone: the first of the two pipelines surfaced from the sea onto the Russian shore. The pipeline string was pulled ashore from the pipelay vessel...

Nord Stream Pipeline Reaches European Mainland

The first pipe string of the Nord Stream Pipeline was pulled ashore on 3 July. “This construction phase was important and exciting for us, not just from a technological point of view. It also has a symbolic significance, as the...

Construction of the Nord Stream Pipeline Began in 
Finnish Waters

The pipelay vessel Castoro Sei arrived in the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) on schedule and continued construction of the Nord Stream Pipeline moving from the Swedish EEZ to the Finnish EEZ yesterday. A first short...

Nord Stream Pipe Laying in German Waters Underway

The pipelay vessel Castoro Dieci (C10) today began laying part of the 82 kilometre long German section of the Nord Stream Pipeline. It marks the start of another major step in the project’s construction. “We are on schedule and...