Supply vessel ” Ivan Sidorenko “, required for the completion of Nord Stream -2 “, left the port of Kaliningrad and entered the Baltic Sea, evidence MarineTraffic data.
The vessel is going to be used to supply pipes during the completion of the gas pipeline. In addition, it is designed to supply floating drilling rigs with materials such as cement, drilling brines, spare parts, fuel, water and food.
Currently, the Curonian Spit in the roadstead close to each other pipelayer “Akademik Chersky”, supply vessels “Umka” and “Finval”, as well as supply vessel “Baltic Researcher” are standing, according to service data.
Earlier, the operator of Nord Stream 2, Nord Stream 2, announced that it would unfreeze the construction of the gas pipeline in early December 2020 after a one-year pause. The pipe-laying is going to be carried out by an anchored vessel in the exclusive economic zone of Germany. However, the information about which particular vessel is in question has not yet been disclosed.
In Fitch international rating agency do not rule out that the gas pipeline may be completed by March 2021. Katya Yafimava, a senior researcher at the Oxford Institute for Energy Research, believes that Nord Stream 2 may be commissioned by next summer, and it will be able to obtain all the necessary certificates for gas supplies next winter.