A vessel leaving the port of Nakhodka capable of completing the construction of Nord Stream 2

Last night, the Akademik Chersky crane-assembly-pipe-laying vessel set sail from the port of Nakhodka. It is heading to Singapore, where it should arrive by midnight from February 21 to February 22.

This information appeared on the monitoring resource Vesselfinder.

Last year, Energy Minister Alexander Novak announced that Akademik Chersky was the only vessel capable of completing pipe laying for the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline. He said that to start work he needed additional preparation, which would take some time.

The pipe-laying vessel was built in 2015. It is owned by Gazprom and in 2016 entered the operational management of Gazprom Fleet. The length of the "Academician Chersky" is 150 meters, and the width is 37. Its draft is 6,5 meters.

In all likelihood, the ship is heading to the Baltic Sea to begin laying the Nord Stream 2 pipes.

Prior to this, the pipe-laying work was carried out by the Swiss company Allseas, but it had to curtail its activities due to the threat of American sanctions. Sanctions measures against the builders of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline are provided for by the US defense budget, which Donald Trump signed at the end of last year.

Comments

[Edik]

It can’t be, some thought

[figwam]

No matter what happens to this ship, he needs to go under guard.

[zadorin1974]

I agree. Sergei. The way is not close, but they can throw striped ones. They can put a lot of ships on Gazprom. They can put them under arrest, they can just detain them under some kind of Ukrainian lawsuit.

[figwam]

Quote: Olis

Most likely, the communal apartment will increase,

You will increase it, do not even hesitate, no one will pour billions into a neighboring hostile state, that's enough.

[neri73-r]

Quote: Olis

You might think that whether this next pipe will be built or not for ordinary Russians gas and utility bills will decreaseU.S. so much some patriots are worried about how the former national heritage is flowing.
Most likely that communal will increase, because it will be necessary to somehow compensate for the increased construction costs of the next political pipe.

How do you worry about us, poor little ones !!!!!!! No, we’ll somehow figure out what to build and what to finish.

[Lipchanin]

Quote: neri73-r

How do you worry about us, poor little ones !!!!!!!

They don’t sleep at night.
Put 90% of these whiners in the chair of the head of the same Gazprom, the rhetoric will instantly change.
Checked more than once.
In any team there are such. As soon as they increase their posts, everything, another person, another rhetoric

[Lipchanin]

Quote: Olis

how exactly the former national treasure flows.

Aha. The USSR did not sell gas and did not sell oil. And the forest did not sell. In general, I did not trade with anyone. And the weapon was generally distributed for nothing. They used everything themselves

[revnagan]

Quote: Lipchanin

Aha. The USSR did not sell gas and did not sell oil. And the forest did not sell. In general, I did not trade with anyone.

Only here the revenues from the sales of all this in the USSR went to the treasury of the state, and not to the personal pockets of individuals. So it is not entirely correct to compare the situation in the USSR and modern Russia. However, this is not only in Russia, but in all the former republics.

[Lipchanin]

Quote: revnagan

Only now, the proceeds from the sales of all this in the USSR went to the state treasury,

At your leisure, take an interest in how much money the state has from the sale of oil and gas.

[Stepan80]

The money went to support mainly cannibalistic regimes, and their people finished eating radishes. ..... they couldn’t sew jeans, they could feed the capital of the republics with sausage, we can’t talk about regions and villages. .... in my village 3 times a week there was bread and then a few rolls were given to the yard. .....

[Stepan80]

Also thought about it. .... the last hope of the Russian Federation

[Hagalaz]

In this regard, I still have one thing that is not clear. If the ship arrived in Singapore, then go a long way? Our Northern Sea Route at this time does not pass even with our capabilities? Or will they only prepare the ship in Singapore?

[savelii1805]

In order to pass the Northern Sea Route an ice class vessel is necessary, and now (in winter) it is also with an icebreaker in front.

[Hagalaz]

Suppose, however, with a high degree of probability that this vessel is not of an ice class, for it was built by order of those who do not need it.
But we have icebreakers! Again it turned out that it is now in Singapore, where it was built. It is possible for competent preparation about the need for which it was announced. So we’ll also see how it turns out to be in the Baltic.

[savelii1805]

This vessel is NOT an ice class. And to build this type of vessel with ice protection is the same as building a bicycle from tank armor. It is impractical. And Singapore is just a place where you will get supplies, fuel, oil and everything necessary for the further transition. . Singapore is geographically favorably located, with a developed supply structure. There, only 600 vessels are laden daily on the internal roads, and there is also an external raid

[Hagalaz]

Singapore is also the shipyard where this ship was built. And he, as stated in the article, needs additional preparation. That is where the best competencies are for this. Coincidence? We will see.

[svd-xnumx]

There is no coincidence, the vessel needs re-equipment, but not for SP-2, but for the construction of gas pipelines on Sakhalin and the Amur gas processing plant

[Lipchanin]

Quote: Hagalaz

Or will they only prepare the ship in Singapore?

Likely

He said that in order to start work, he needed additional preparation, which would take some time.

[mikh-korsakov]

Novel! This is strange to me too. Personally, I am guided on these matters by the blogs of Aslan Nakhrushev, who positions himself immersed in the question. I tend to believe him because of his pre-sanctions reporting, which looks professional. So that's the main one. if not the only voiced problem of replacement by Akademik Chersky is the discrepancy between the diameters of the SP2 pipes and the diameters of the gas pipelines in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, which were laid by the Chersky. Then they decided not to distract "Akademik" from his affairs in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, so as not to disrupt contracts. Therefore, I personally think that "Akademik" goes to Singapore on issues not related to SP2. The risk is too great. You understand what it is.

[skipper83]

Most likely in Singapore there will be a modernization or retrofitting of the ship. And the Northern Sea Route in February March is a dubious prospect.

[saturn.mmm]

Quote: Hagalaz

Our Northern Sea Route at this time does not pass even with our capabilities?

Because of one ship to send an icebreaker? Via the Suez Canal will be cheaper.

[Lelek]

Quote: figvam

No matter what happens to this ship, he needs to go under guard.

In general, it is not known for what purpose the pipelayer left Nakhodka. Everything is just a rumor. But in any case, the Americans can arrange a trick, and the protection of the box does not hurt.

[Fibrizio]

Against the background of the contractor’s, this is a dwarf vessel from the last century. There were floating factories in essence. So the gasket will go slower by an order of magnitude.

[Lelek]

Quote: Fibrizio

So the gasket will go slower by an order of magnitude.

The laying itself - 163 km is nothing compared to what was done, but the lost time is a pity. No wonder the saying - "time is money".

[Grigory b]

A couple of tankers, a tug, a refrigerator, an Admiral Kasatonov, a couple of submarines, then Miller can sleep peacefully.

[Bykov.]

Quote: Edik

It can’t be, some thought

Hmm, promptly.

[cniza]

In all likelihood, the ship is heading to the Baltic Sea to begin laying the Nord Stream 2 pipes.

What fortunetelling? and why did it come out just now?

[rocket757]

Quote: cniza

What fortunetelling? and why did it come out just now?

Hello Victor
Everyone expected something like that, or rather this.
It will come in the spring, when it can work normally.
The vessel, all the same, is of lower class than Allseas. Those guys have ships that are "monsters", factories afloat.

[cniza]

This is understandable, but there was no winter ... it was not for us to decide, so it was necessary. Greetings!

[Masha]

but there was no winter ...

And suddenly ... somewhere along the way and was? WINTER???

[cniza]

Suddenly, everything may be snowdrops in December ...

[saturn.mmm]

Quote: rocket757

Those guys have ships that are "monsters", factories afloat.

“Audacia” is only twice as large, Fortuna will be customized as an auxiliary and laid down.

[rocket757]

Already anyway, the main thing is to finish the job.

[Thrall]

Quote: cniza

What fortunetelling? and why did it come out just now?

In this matter, under current conditions, secrecy is not the last thing. It is impossible to give Americans the opportunity to take countermeasures in advance. The ship was busy laying another pipeline.

[cniza]

Probably, but then it was necessary not to throw this information either.

[Piramidon]

Quote: cniza

Probably, but then it was necessary not to throw this information either.

When it came out, there was no secret anymore. Anyone can track it.

[cniza]

It is willing, and here to the whole world - look, the Russians went to finish building the SP-2.

[Piramidon]

Quote: cniza

It is willing

And unwanted this infa generally in the drum.

[bessmertniy]

Until it comes, the former contractor may change his mind and ask for back.

[Sadam]

some gossip that was occupied by another contract in Okhotsk, others half a year ago, it was already in Nakhodka ... of course it was necessary to sniff out earlier.
identity too - the bunker is available everywhere. in Vanino they always take the bunker when the northern delivery is done. another thing in the winter through the top is very tough. a head-legs in the open and an icebreaker for ice - the gold wiring will turn out to be despite all the laudatory slogans for the Northern Sea Route.
5 years old ship is new. Before making a decision on paper they fixed with the Danes what kind of modernization with this geo-positioning - the same shipyard does - God forbid, without docking. although 5 years this register is docking .... although Miller has to make sure 10 times, and then again a bunch in the water.

[Incomprehensible]

Quote: cniza

What fortunetelling? and why did it come out just now?

Apparently because of = for this - He said that for the beginning of work he needed additional preparation, which would take some time.

[carstorm 11]

Last year, Energy Minister Alexander Novak announced that Akademik Chersky was the only vessel capable of completing pipe laying for the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline. He said that to start work he needed additional preparation, which would take some time.

[rocket757]

In general, if you argue now, only about when you will finish laying the offshore section ....

[cniza]

Better when the SP-2 starts working, our "partners" are clicking their teeth.

[rocket757]

Quote: cniza

Better when the SP-2 starts working, our "partners" are clicking their teeth.

"News" will be raised and "scratched" from all sides. There is no getting away from this.

[cniza]

For some it will be a bone in the throat, let them "scratch".

[rocket757]

Let them, we will sit on the embankment ... but our Navy can advise and wish to "walk", not far away! It will not hurt at all, for general peace of mind .... and then there are all sorts of "cattle" in the seas / oceans divorced, not measured.

[cniza]

I think that it’s not just a walk, but is always nearby.

[rocket757]

It will not be superfluous, because overseas roosters have flared up ... we need it, all sorts of misunderstandings about our sirloin, it’s time to organize the return, if that.

[Maximilian37]

Do you really think that one of the "partners" will sink this ship? are they suicidal?
It is much simpler to arrest him in the same Singapore, and none of our warships will help, they simply will not let him in thermal water. And he will try to enter, they will shower him from below and from above.

[rocket757]

Quote: Maximilian37

It’s much easier to arrest him in the same Singapore and

All measures of obstruction have a tricky need to have at least some reason and evidence for them. Of course, this doesn’t stop anyone when it acts against us ... but it all has time limitations.
What is not required, in any way, for any "cattle-floating" or "unknown pirates".
"partners" play only by their own rules and in order to keep them within the limits of any decency, the revolver must be loaded and lie right on the table! Otherwise, they DO NOT UNDERSTAND for a long time.
PS ... to line, he does not have to, just Schaub WAS!

[Lelek]

Quote: cniza

our "partners" are snapping their teeth.

Victor.
Oh yes it is. Today the main "gazer" of Ruins announced his "Macedonian" transit plans:

But "pshekiya" did not calculate and flies.

And all this disgrace is happening BEFORE the introduction of SP-2, and what will happen when the latter starts working?

[zadorin1974]

The ship is not a Zhiguli, it takes a long time to prepare for the transition. The Akademik's ecological class is also lower than that of the Swiss, and in the Baltic the requirements of OGO-GO (everyone is warm and green like fleas on a bobik. Apparently they shake it down.

[Demon_is_ada]

Quote: zadorin1974

Also, the ecological class of the "Akademik" is lower than that of the Swiss, and in the Baltic the requirements of the OGO-GO (everyone is warm and green like fleas on a bobik. Apparently they shaken them down.

Eeeee they already mustard with lewisite inherited from Hitler caught? There the container has already decomposed, it is time to scratch it and actively, otherwise then no ecology with greens will help, and by the way it’s time for us to raise this issue ...

[zadorin1974]

Well, in the Baltic states, gas equipment for diesel engines is being forced to be installed on ships. And chemical ammunition of the third Reich is not fashionable, people don’t see them under water. And black smoke over the pipe prevents very advanced EU citizens from eating.

[cat Rusich]

Switching engines to gas fuel - increasing gas demand ... Need SP-3.

[Sadam]

environmental class)))) smiled. he is the same for everyone. ship under the flag grew. The register has grown that Lloyd is that DNV and Veritas they have the same rules in the marpole are described and upgraded. in the Baltic Sea will switch to low-sulfur or diesel. fecal land on the edge can be given to the barge ... that’s the whole ecology. and the ship is new

[cormorant]

You can read more about the environmental class. Do not write something in the wrong foot.

[Ponchik78]

Well, it’s just that simple. It was simply understaffed with the necessary equipment.

[Olgovich]

Quote: cniza

and why did it come out just now?

The article explained as follows:

Novak said that to start work he needs additional preparation, which will take some time

.

Perhaps this preparation has already been made ...

[Lelek]

Quote: cniza

What fortunetelling? and why did it come out just now?

Victor.
The pipe layer was equipped with new welding equipment and soft live rolls for pipes for SP-2.

[rocket757]

Hi lion
Everything should be done AS IS NECESSARY, as expected. There is a need to install new / additional equipment, do it and go to the "wine warehouses"!

[Lelek]

Quote: rocket757

There is a need to install new \ additional equipment, do it and go ...

Time, buddy. This takes time. Who knew the Swiss would be so fucked up. And for the future, of course, you need to build your own powerful (multipurpose) pipelayer, so as not to depend on the dirty tricks of "exceptional competitors".

[rocket757]

You need to think in advance ... but if something happened, regret it, in general. We must continue to do business.

[mikstepanenko]

What fortunetelling? and why did it come out just now?

Last year, Energy Minister Alexander Novak announced that Akademik Chersky was the only vessel capable of completing pipe laying for the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline. He said that to start work he needed additional preparation, which would take some time.

[72jora72]

What fortunetelling? and why did it come out just now?

They probably did the preparation, the crew was trained, the body kit was corresponding ......... agreed with the Danes to enter the territorial waters.

[BAI]

He repeats the path of the Russian squadron in the REV, only in the opposite direction. As if Tsushima in the English Channel would not suit him. It would be necessary according to the precepts of Admiral Makarov - according to SevMorPuti.

[Thrall]

Quote: BAI

As if Tsushima in the English Channel would not suit him.

It will not be superfluous for the Navy to take our pipelayer under guard.

[freddyk]

Quote: Thrall

Quote: BAI

As if Tsushima in the English Channel would not suit him.

It will not be superfluous for the Navy to take our pipelayer under guard.

That's for sure, someone will have to substitute the board for the cattle truck. Yes, and you never know the troughs of different okayanu roam.

[BARKAS]

In Singapore, problems are much more likely because of sanctions, local authorities may well curry favor with the West.

[savelii1805]

Yes, it will not even enter Singapore itself, most likely. It will rise on an external roadstead, supply supplies, fuel and go on.

[Mountain shooter]

Strange information. If it is not "modified" for pipes with a diameter of 480 mm, it will not be able to lay SP-2.
No such revision was heard while he was in Nakhodka. Built it in Singapore. Maybe he first went there to retrofit?

[figwam]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

under pipes with a diameter of 480 mm

In my opinion there were 1200 mm, Chirsky can stack up to 1500 mm

[Mountain shooter]

Of course 48 inches. I apologize.

[dgonni]

480mm or 480 inches?

[Piramidon]

Quote: dgonni

480mm or 480 inches?

Neither, but 60 inches = 1524 mm. It is not known where this "Shooter" got the number 480 from.

[asv363]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

If it is not "modified" for pipes with a diameter of 480 mm, it will not be able to lay SP-2.

From the Gazprom website:

The Akademik Chersky crane-mounted pipe-laying vessel has been in the operational management of Gazprom Fleet since 2016. The vessel is designed for laying pipelines from 6 to 60 inches in diameter (outer diameter, including coating).

https://flot.gazprom.ru/fleet/truboukladochnoe-sudno-akademi/

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

Strange information. If it is not "modified" for pipes with a diameter of 480 mm, it will not be able to lay SP-2.

Diameter of pipes SP-2 = 1200 mm
Chersky's characteristics:

Gross Tonnage: 29513 reg.t
Net Tonnage: 7600 Reg.t
Deadweight: 11890 t
Displacement (summer): 30146 t
Length: 150.0 m
Width: 36.8 meters (max. 38.5m on the bridge)
Depth: 15.10 m
Draft: 6,3 meter
Max. speed: 12 knots
Deck area: 1800 m2 (load 5 t / m2)
Crew (normative): 400 people
Dynamic Positioning System: DP3
Cranes:
main SWL 1200 t (33m) + SWL 600 t (29m) = SWL 1800t (27m)
auxiliary 2 x SWL 40 t (40m)
Pipe Laying System - S-lay. Stinger (lower arrow) two-section, length - 120 m [15]
Pipe laying speed - up to 5km / day
The diameter of the stacked pipeline is from 4 to 48 inches (from 6 to 60 inches, given the concrete coating of the pipes).[60 inches = 1524 mm]
Tensioners (Tensioners, English) - 3 x 200t. The total tension of 600 tons allows laying the pipeline to a depth of 2,5 km.

Diameter of pipes SP-2:

Pipes have the same constant inner diameter of 1153 mm, wall thickness up to 41 mm and are designed for operating pressure up to 220 atm.

Here, on the site, there is enough water without yours.
The pipelayer will go where there is more chance of not being captured by ice.

[Victor_B]

EMNIP this ship will not be allowed into Danish water, where now the ends of the pipe lie.
It does not have a positioning system.

[blinker]

Chersky has this system.

[old friend]

there is a system:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9

[askort154]

Victor_B ..... It has no positioning system.

There is no "fortune" on the barge, but on the "Chersky" there is.

[Victor_B]

Dynamic Positioning System: DP3

Whether this is what you need, I don’t know.

At the time of January 1, 2020, the vessel is not ready for operation as a pipe layer, since it does not have the necessary welding and installation equipment.

At the end of December 2019, Gazprom Flot announced an open tender for the completion of work on retrofitting KMTUS with welding and technological equipment. The estimated cost of the work is 873,5 million rubles. The results of the tender were to be announced on January 22, 2020 [12], but the deadline for accepting proposals was postponed to January 30, 2020. [13]

(Pedivikia)
But the Danes will lay down their bones to prevent them from working.
In the end, it has no windmills and solar panels!
Ecology is a danger!

[Victor_B]

Quote: Victor_B

Ecology is a danger!

And still not enough sexual minorities and blacks!
And with feminists a disproportion!

[region58]

Quote: Victor_B

there are no windmills and solar panels on it!
Ecology is a danger!

... that way they will soon begin to demand the presence of sails and rowers ...

[savelii1805]

He has DP3. Those. 3rd generation dynamic positioning system. Better yet not invented by anyone and anywhere.

[Galleon]

It would not be worth letting the Chersky go without an escort. Too important mission and too defenseless ship. But the decision has been made. Clean water for sailors.

[Nastia makarova]

will the pirates take over?

[ximkim]

Quote: Nastia Makarova

will the pirates take over?

Sanctioners. And the pirates will sink such a ship for a fee

[cormorant]

By the way, quite as one of the options to delay the ship. You understand that pirates attack hijacking ships. The South China Sea is not teeming with pirates, but there are cases.

[aszzz888]

Galleon (Andrey) Today, 09: 49
+8
It would not be worth letting the Chersky go without an escort. Too important mission and too defenseless ship.

I believe this question is provided. At least I want to hope so.

Pure water for sailors.

I support. Without emergency, go and get started. The prestige of Russia is very significant in this matter.

[Retvizan 8]

Surely the hegimons are already preparing another dirty trick.
And so what mattresses are ready to trample on their rivals only guesses. In the end, they will probably impose sanctions against those who will buy Russian gas. (((

[cniza]

There are many questions, apparently the "effective" managers thought differently, it is cheaper to hire others, but political risks were not taken into account ...

[DMB 75]

Then for what they are paid a salary if they could not calculate all the risks in advance?

[cniza]

Oh, if only to them, and so many parasites around ...

[Maximilian37]

But how should Gazprom managers calculate political risks in your opinion? Ukraine? Crimea? Syria?

[ximkim]

They don’t want to invest in the fleet (save and greed) And the sanctions just right showed that hiring ships from other countries and companies is not such a safe action.

[_Ugene_]

they forgot to add that this vessel will be doing six months or even more what Allseas would have done in 2 weeks

[Crystal of Truth]

Where to rush now?

[savelii1805]

How do you know this? Have you worked on pipe layers?

[_Ugene_]

"Academician Chersky" is now heading to Singapore for re-equipment in order to be able to work with pipes of the required diameter SP-2, how long it will take to get to the place is about another month and a half, laying speed is about one and a half kilometers per day, length of unfinished the pipeline section in a single-threaded version is about 160 km, plus given the difficult weather conditions in the Baltic in winter, it will not be able to work continuously, as it was three times as large as the double-shell Pioneering Spirit, so consider

[Piramidon]

Quote: _Ugene_

so consider

For three months of work. Over the summer I have to handle I’m wondering, will a penalty be demanded from Allseas?

[_Ugene_]

For three months of work. Over the summer I have to cope.

if we consider clean work, it’s 3,5 months, if we take into account that it will not work every day due to the fact that it has a lower sea level restriction, and now there are storms in the Baltic, plus re-equipment and swim to the place for at least six months

I’m wondering, will a penalty be demanded from Allseas?

It seems no, that no one said a word about it

[cormorant]

The agreement on non-disclosure of trade secrets has not been canceled. Even if paid, we may not know.

[svp67]

A vessel leaving the port of Nakhodka capable of completing the construction of Nord Stream 2

Now, the entire fleet must be accompanied by rescue tugs ... so that suddenly nothing comes of it.

[rotmistr60]

_Ugene_
they forgot to add that this vessel will be doing six months or even more what Allseas would have done in 2 weeks

It doesn’t matter how long it will be laid, it is important to finish laying the pipes. Regarding the deadlines after the American sanctions, it was announced that the end of 2020 is the first quarter of 2021. Therefore, your remark is completely useless.

[VIT101]

Prior to this, the pipe-laying work was carried out by the Swiss company Allseas, but it had to curtail its activities due to the threat of American sanctions.

The threat of US sanctions scared the Swiss company. Interestingly, did Gazprom invoice them for the failure of the contract in accordance with the Work Contract? Or was it not provided for in the Treaty, which is unlikely?

[bairat]

I join the question. An interesting moment of calculation.

[4ybys]

But doesn’t it seem to you that they specially launched the Old, so that the vessel would be in sight and it would be more difficult to make dirty mattresses. Or distract from something else. However, the option with an initiative fool also should not be discarded.

[DPN]

Earlier they wrote that this ship is laying something in Japan, therefore, on; Nord Stream -2; will not go.

[Rostislav]

If the "Chersky" was sent, it means that Denmark rested and does not give permission for laying by barges that do not have dynamic positioning.
At first we fought (and lost a lot of time) to make a route through Danish waters, being able to bypass them, now here is the second part of the "Marlezon ballet".
Are Gazprom analysts over?

[Jurkovs]

I hope the security provided. And escort by a warship. Americans can come up with dirty tricks.

[Kerensky]

That is, the board will be shamanic in Singapore out of schedule? Well, then it is clear that he was in no hurry, he was waiting for the "window".

[Ros 56]

And what about escorting ships by the Navy, and then a lot of all sorts of idiots hang around the oceans, including striped

[Cowbra]

Yes, they already agreed there, it seems that Friendship will work in tandem with a ship that has a geolocation. What does this ship have to do with it?

[Guru]

Apparently sent to Singapore for retrofitting.

[bobba94]

In vain worry. Americans do not need to fuss. Americans know that there are no changes, replacements and so on. Gazprom will not be part of the manager’s team, so no matter how much fuss, these managers will do all the tricks themselves.

[Victor March 47]

Quote: Olis

You might think that whether this next pipe will be built or not for ordinary Russians gas and utility bills will decreaseU.S. so much some patriots are worried about how the former national heritage is flowing.
Most likely that communal will increase, because it will be necessary to somehow compensate for the increased construction costs of the next political pipe.

There are premature ones who do not understand that the lower the price inside the country, the less of that remains in this country.
In the USSR, the gas price was 4 kopecks per cubic meter. Hence the almost complete absence of it in cities and towns. A dozen cities such as Moscow and Novosibirsk do not correct the picture. There was also no way to drag the pipe through the taiga to somewhere in Krasnozaborsk in order to make 1000 inhabitants happy. All that could go to countries that respect themselves and pay not 4 copecks, but 4 dollars. What is needed is not a price reduction, but a wage increase. Then, with the equality of prices, what is inside, what is behind the fence, everything will be sold primarily here. And no customs will be needed, with the protection of resources, bribe-takers and bribe-takers who break through any obstacles in export bans will disappear, even by methods of undermining buildings with officials who observe the interests of the motherland. As it was not once. Think of the assassination of a border officer in the Far East. Together with a 12-storey building. And this applies not only to gas, but to everything. They will not barbarously cut down Russian forests, they will not export coal, oil, metals. Everything should remain primarily for their own. But this is, above all, prices equal to the district.

[mikstepanenko]

There was also no way to drag the pipe through the taiga to somewhere in Krasnozaborsk in order to make 1000 inhabitants happy.

The reason is completely different. There is Kuzbass with huge reserves (and production) of coal, and all of Siberia in the planned economy of the Union was heated by this coal. It just didn’t make sense to pull the pipes, refusing at the same time the existing production (which then there was no where to put it) and infrastructure.

[Victor March 47]

Quote: bairat

I join the question. An interesting moment of calculation.

They will send us to .... They will refer to insurmountable circumstances. And ours, in order not to lose contact with the hacienda and relatives THERE, will get lost. If there were political will, they would have taken a fine many times higher than the sanctions. Or they rented it for six months. With a complete replacement of the crew, so as not to expose them to sanctions. And during this time we learned management,

[Stepan80]

The series promises to be interesting ..... stock up on popcorn and watch

[iouris]

Do you think it will? It would be better to go by the Northern Sea Route: shorter and safer. In any case, it is not a fact that "completion of construction" will solve all problems.

[Sadam]

it also seems that the end of construction is a keyword and the game is just beginning. Trump re-elected in the fall .... sanctions, they are now upgraded not only to builders but also to users.
there is an option to clamp the eggs Frau

[Piramidon]

Quote: iouris

It would be better to go along the Northern Sea Route

He won’t get there until the summer. Now there ice class ships sail with icebreakers

[Igor Dvornikov]

And who will pay the penalty?

[ZaharoFF]

Immediately it was impossible to do so? Although what I mean ....

[Fibrizio]

Quote: cniza

there was no winter

It's not about the temperature but about the roughness of the sea. What a floating football stadium could do is hardly a vessel. It's not a pipelayer in size here, but something like a large rescuer in the northern seas. For example, like "Muraman" or "Bering Strait" (google for fun). The larger the vessel, the better its stability + I am sure that imported vessels have more advanced roll compensators. It used to be that ships rocked on the waves, and now they have either gyroscopes or pneumatics pumping fluid from side to side to compensate.

[Clueless]

The ship is arrested or something like that. It should be like with the "Syrian Express" at the time, when cargo ships were put under the flag of the Russian armed forces.

[alien]

A vessel leaving the port of Nakhodka capable of completing the construction of Nord Stream 2

Well, to all appearances, the Swiss pipe-laying company Allseas Group SA can forget about orders from Russia for the next N-th number of years ... "Swiss" reliability has failed.

[Victor March 47]

Quote: mikstepanenko

There was also no way to drag the pipe through the taiga to somewhere in Krasnozaborsk in order to make 1000 inhabitants happy.

The reason is completely different. There is Kuzbass with huge reserves (and production) of coal, and all of Siberia in the planned economy of the Union was heated by this coal. It just didn’t make sense to pull the pipes, refusing at the same time the existing production (which then there was no where to put it) and infrastructure.

Did you live in Kuzbass? Can you tell me why there was gas in the 400 thousandth Novokuznetsk, and there wasn’t 360 thousandth in Prokopyevsk? Although there was a huge amount of coal both here and there? There was no gas in the Altai Territory, although there too ..... Do you know what it is like to mine coal, did you compare the risks of working on the surface at the drilling site and below, at a kilometer depth? In a super-category mine with methane emission of more than 25 cubic meters per ton of coal? Do you know about the statistics of the traumatic work in the mine, in any way, not reduced by all efforts during the entire Soviet period, when one human life was given for every million tons, not counting cripples and minor injuries? Do you know how much coal was mined in those days, and can you multiply 600 million per unit to find out how many miners were buried per year? Arithmetic, your mother.

[prior]

“Academician Chersky” is sailing to save “national treasure”.

[Sadam]

Vlad does not swim but goes. Well, you can lope ((((

[prior]

The term floats used specifically. What usually floats I know ....

[Laksamana besar]

Judging by the tender, the vessel has not yet been equipped to work as a pipe layer, and perhaps this will be done in the shipyards of Singapore, where it was completed. About the Nord Stream -2, by the way, there is no question, at least officially.

[Guru]

I also suggested that for retrofitting. Apparently they just found the equipment itself and those who will equip it. Probably except in Singapore where not ours.
(notice how many minusers)

[Laksamana besar]

And there is such an opinion:

The Russian authorities do not specifically indicate the Baltic Sea as the endpoint for the ship, so that the US leadership could not introduce the Academician Chersky in advance under sanctions, creating problems for using the vessel at the Nord Stream 2 construction sites, a leading expert of the National Energy Security Fund believes Igor Yushkov.

In Singapore, the ship can complete any modernization. On the one hand, he ["Academician Chersky"] is able to carry out the work that is needed to complete the Nord Stream 2, ”said Yushkov. - On the other hand, the vessel has recently been operating on the Sakhalin shelf and laid pipes of smaller diameter. During the time that he is standing, "Academician Chersky" has already passed a certain readjustment.

[Victor March 47]

Quote: Lelek

Quote: Fibrizio

So the gasket will go slower by an order of magnitude.

The laying itself - 163 km is nothing compared to what was done, but the lost time is a pity. No wonder the saying - "time is money".

Time is not lost. Colossal work has been done to split unity on the gas issue. German money suffers mainly, because the lion's share in this project is theirs. The countries that built themselves terminals for liquefied gas were supplied by cancer. Which will become a burden, with further cheaper gas, due to the disadvantage, more and more increasing with lower prices. Germany, which closed all nuclear power plants. going crazy with the pressure of the greens and the people who don’t understand that burning methane is the greenest way to produce electricity. The amount of this most greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is reduced, because it still leaves the underground and underwater pantries, and no natural phenomena contribute to its conservation there.

[awg75]

I really want to believe that the plan for the transfer of the vessel was not developed alone by "effective managers of Gazprom" (many of whom will sell their mothers for green candy wrappers), but agreed with the competent law enforcement agencies and departments. Otherwise, he will simply be arrested in any foreign port at the request of the United States in connection with “possible failure to comply with US sanctions against SP-2.” And on the way, many inexplicable things can happen. In this case, our country will be inflicted huge reputational damage, and we can do absolutely nothing, it will be too late. I want to believe that the route is thoroughly thought out.

[beeper]

With an escort, destroyer and multi-purpose submarine under the keel, it was necessary the only and unique Russian ship to go on this responsible state task ?!
As if the real "secret of two oceans" did not happen, after all, you can expect any meanness from the malicious "partners" ?!

[Victor March 47]

Quote: mikstepanenko

There was also no way to drag the pipe through the taiga to somewhere in Krasnozaborsk in order to make 1000 inhabitants happy.

The reason is completely different. There is Kuzbass with huge reserves (and production) of coal, and all of Siberia in the planned economy of the Union was heated by this coal. It just didn’t make sense to pull the pipes, refusing at the same time the existing production (which then there was no where to put it) and infrastructure.

There is Poland with their coal reserves. There is Germany .... There is England, which closed all coal mines. And there is the USSR, which burns millions of tons of brown coal in Krasnoyarsk thermal power plants, poisoning the whole of Siberia up to the tundra with sulfur rains, and sending pure purified energy, without color, odor and other things, through wires to the native Sevsk brotherly countries that have crap all our past history. Great. Nerd, no more letters to you ....

[Xenofont]

The Danes, in compensation for boorish tricks, gave permission to work even a barge without DP. Her performance is simply akin to Estonian reverie.

[master 52]

there is a good saying "Russians harness slowly but drive fast" so everything is fine

[Virtuoso]

Well, bon voyage and seven feet under the keel ..! For a long time it would have been necessary to adjust, the Vedts knew that they would be dirty!

[Finn]

Quote: Xenofont

The Danes, in compensation for boorish tricks, gave permission to work even a barge without DP. Her performance is simply akin to Estonian reverie.

Joke? Denmark? I beg of you. And this is not a barge, it doesn’t adjust its location unlike fortune with anchors. Slowly but surely.

[Fantazer911]

That is what it means to keep your gold in the states, if even sanctions are in view, that’s all the countries and are not dependent only on whom, on what?

[tolmachiev51]

- "It is heading to Singapore, where it should arrive by midnight on February 21-22 !!!!" -. how much will it then "spank" to the Baltic !?

[lvov_aleksey]

we still have a whole year!

[kig]

For some reason, the traffic monitor doesn’t show it anymore, and the delielfinder gives a position south of Sri Lanka, the appointment of Suez.