RE:Europe Needs LNG8) Nordstream2 is still delayed and Russia continues to be plagued by the US sanctions drags on getting the job done. It is likely that Germany will offer up a LNG contract for a % of Germany's needs in exchange for the US dropping its objections/sanctions.
9) MOSCOW, April 1. /TASS/. Foreign warships and vessels are demonstrating higher activity in the pipelay area of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Branch Director of Nord Stream 2 AG, the project operator, Andrei Minin told reporters on Thursday.
10) The 1.5-mile safety area is established when implementing such projects, he said."Nevertheless, naval vessels of foreign countries are constantly registered (including by tactical numbers) near service ships performing work. The Polish antisubmarine warfare airplane PZL-Mielec M-28B1 Rbi is regularly flying around the work area at a small height and closely to the pipelay vessel," the branch director said.
The foreign activity around pipelay vessels has intensified recently, Minin noted. On March 28, an unidentified submarine appeared up-top at a distance less than a mile in the safety area of the piplelay vessel,.
11) According to Nord Stream 2 AG, the pipeline is 95% complete and around 121 kilometers (75 miles) remains to be built.