Experts believe that the Umka vessel is in a hurry to help in the completion of Nord Stream 2

The Umka Marine Rescue Service support vessel, which was previously involved in the project, may take part in the completion of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline. This is the second ship of the Marine Rescue Service, which will join the work. Experts think so.

The fact that Umka is in a hurry to the Kaliningrad region is evidenced by the data of the navigation portal Marinetraffic.

The Umka departed from Murmansk and is to arrive in Kaliningrad before midnight. He will join the subsidiary the fleet, which will be involved in the construction of Nord Stream 2, becoming its fourth participant. Three other vessels are already in the Kaliningrad port. These are Ostap Sheremet and Ivan Sidorenko, who arrived in July from Vladivostok. In August they were joined by the "Baltic Researcher" who arrived from Murmansk. The latter, like Umka, has already been used in the construction of Nord Stream 2 - at one of the stages.

Previously, the project was carried out by pipelayers and auxiliary vessels of the Swiss company Allseas, but they left the project due to the threat of US sanctions, not completing 150 kilometers of the pipeline. They are to be replaced by the pipe layers Akademik Chersky and Fortuna, as well as four auxiliary vessels that will assemble in Kaliningrad. But there were also problems with Fortuna.

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[svp67]

Half a year has passed in ONE SLOGS ... Guys, you either start to finish building or do not suffer ...

[Al Asad]

You open the news sometimes.
The problems are not technical, but rather political and organizational

[Insurgent]

Experts believe that the Umka vessel is in a hurry to help in the completion of Nord Stream 2

"Umka", a wonderful, good name for the rescue ship. Honestly, without antics and sarcasm



I need it there - let it go

[New Year day]

Quote: Al Asad

The problems are not technical, but rather political and organizational

And what did the "effective managers" do, about whom VVP was afraid that they would run away for the cordon because of low salaries?

[Shah909]

From morning to evening, kayfariki and tomorrow again. The money was already dripping. Clever and dexterous are not given a way. And an ignoramus .... He is also an ignoramus in Africa. The whole world is freaking out from their behavior on different islands. And so the business will quickly settle. Here is the result. So at least send 100 umok, there is nothing to catch. There "partners" rule their masters.

[Xnumx vis]

Quote: Shah909

And an ignoramus ... He is an ignoramus in Africa

Speaking of birds ... an ignoramus without a soft sign. By the way about the LUCKY !!!

[volodimer]

Yuri, and you ... that troll-ornithologist

[Shah909]

Sorry. Missed

[svp67]

Quote: Al Asad

You open the news sometimes.
The problems are not technical, but rather political and organizational

Yes, what are you saying ... but I think why they can't resume construction for a whole year ... And it looks like Mikhalych ...
I especially like your reference to "organizational problems" ... They explain everything ... I can't understand one thing, why didn't they immediately send a supply vessel with the pipelayer from the Pacific Ocean, why did they waste so much time and now, what they expected earlier, why this ship, the Umka, had not arrived earlier. That Gazprom does not understand at all what forecasting is or is it just a textbook on the construction of "offshore pipelines" to the page about the need to have a quick read?
And this is all under the cheerful slogans: "Russia will finish building the SP-2 anyway", although at the beginning of the year they added "until the end of the year", now somehow they don't remember about it ...

[NKT]

It's simple. Before that, they tried to implement plan A and B - it did not work out, plan C remained - we build ourselves, no one will help, they will not lease anything and will not sell anything.

[svp67]

Quote: NKT

plan C remains - we build ourselves, no one will help, will not lease anything and will not sell anything.

And it was not destiny to understand this right away, especially after the FLIGHT of foreign pipe suppliers ... Well, yes, of course

[boss]

It's scary to continue a sad row - and then they won't buy anything through it, how are they?
But as with the Turkish stream, it can happen

[Century]

It's great that such experts are sitting on the forums who know all the subtleties and nuances, and not the idiots that are involved in SP-2 ... People who know everything about everyone and how best to do it are surprising. Apparently I need to go to you for advice ...

[Kuzmich Sibiryakov]

Quote: svp67

Quote: Al Asad

You open the news sometimes.
The problems are not technical, but rather political and organizational

Yes, what are you saying ... but I think why they can't resume construction for a whole year ... And it looks like Mikhalych ...
I especially like your reference to "organizational problems" ... They explain everything ... I can't understand one thing, why didn't they immediately send a supply vessel with the pipelayer from the Pacific Ocean, why did they waste so much time and now, what they expected earlier, why this ship, the Umka, had not arrived earlier. That Gazprom does not understand at all what forecasting is or is it just a textbook on the construction of "offshore pipelines" to the page about the need to have a quick read?
And this is all under the cheerful slogans: "Russia will finish building the SP-2 anyway", although at the beginning of the year they added "until the end of the year", now somehow they don't remember about it ...

And in order to understand, you need extensive information stored in the brain, which can analyze. I think (I could be wrong) that the time factor here plays into Russia.
The first statement is that we have 5 years under the extended contract with Ukraine for gas transit.
Second. Look at the behavior of Germany, which boosted the dough no less than Russia. It has already lifted restrictions on pipe-1, allowing 100% flow through it.
Third. Remember the scandal with two turbines for the power industry of the Crimea? It turns out that these turbines CAN work there, since they are not quite Siemens ones.
Fourth. The Germans, in order to fully load pipe-2 in the future, suggested supplying hydrogen for full filling there.
I don't know how much this is possible, but this is not the main thing. The main thing is that the Germans hammer the wall from their side. And the last message, I think, the protest against the sanctions against their allies, signed by 22 EU countries, was most likely organized by them. The split in the EU and against the US is the main thing. Well, what about the losses? Everyone has them. And against the background of the general recession, we do not look so wild. Although, perhaps, we will suffer the most.

[snucerist]

The problems are purely technical.
And they follow from the political, this is true.
But that doesn't stop them being technical.
The main problem today is precisely the TECHNICAL impossibility to complete the flow. The fact that tough sanctions will follow in response to any undertaking by the Russian side is already secondary, although even more unpleasant.
The technical problems are as follows. It is clear that no foreign company will get into the SP-2 project now, it is more expensive for itself, there are no fools. Nobody will lay more pipes. Not China, not Asia, nobody at all.
Russia will have to do it on its own. And theoretically, there seems to be a chance for this. Provided that the Chersky-Fortuna link will work. Chersky - at depth (he cannot work in shallow water), Fortuna - at the coast.
The problem is that the bundle has already broken up. For many reasons.
Chersky has them of a purely technical nature. It is still NOT REFITTED to handle large diameter pipes. When this will happen is unknown. It is also unknown who and where will carry out this modernization, at the risk of running into sanctions. Today Chersky is technically unable to carry out pipe-laying operations for the SP-2 project.
With Fortuna, the situation is somewhat different.
The company "Mezhregiontruboprovodstroy" (JSC "MRTS"), which was called the owner of the pipe-laying barge (TUB) "Fortuna", reported that they did not intend to provide the vessel to complete the project. This is expected, the time has passed when everyone boasted and boasted of sanctions.
Further, feints with ears began in an attempt to bypass the sanctions by analogy with Chersky and attempts to change the owner. The technology has already been worked out - Chersky was removed from Gazprom Flot and ended up in Samara Heat and Power Property Fund JSC (STIF). The supply vessels Ostap Sheremet and Ivan Sidorenko also migrated from Gazprom Flot to JSC Nobility.
True, with Fortuna it is more difficult. MRTS seems to be a bareboat charterer of Fortune, that is, a lessee. And it has the right to transfer the vessel to sublease (subberboat charter) to another person who will operate. But the sanctions risks remain, for JSC "MRTS" remains on the lists of rightholders even with this option. You can, of course, do one more trick with your ears - ahead of schedule to withdraw the ship from possession and use by agreement of the parties and quickly transfer it to another kamikaze tenant, but it is naive to think that the States did not calculate such a possibility.
It is clear that the United States is still holding the main trump cards up its sleeve. Small enough caliber for now. The port of Mukran is already under attack. The DUH has filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Administrative Court of Greifsweld with a demand to check the validity of Berlin's permit for the construction of SP-2. And environmentalists are serious, and with such an argument - the possibility of an uncontrolled leak of methane into the Baltic. Problems with pipeline insurance and certification are growing.
In Germany, distinct voices were heard about the possibility of the project not being completed. In particular, this possibility is allowed by Uniper.
What is surprising is the position of our jingoistic patriots. They do not see the heap of the most difficult problems at close range. They all have one answer - they say, the Germans have also invested in the project, they will not allow it to fail.
And no one allows a different development of events? And if the Germans refuse and demand compensation for the funds they have invested in the project? The same $ 5 billion that European companies have already invested in the construction of the gas pipeline? From whom? From a Russian holding, eu-no.
Is this possibility not allowed? Has anyone ever seen the contract from mere mortals? Knows what it says? In case of force majeure? On what conditions did foreign companies enter the project? How were their risks negotiated?

[major147]

Quote: svp67

Guys, you either start to finish building or do not suffer ...

There is no need to "drive horses" now. There is a lot of gas on the market, it is cheap.

[orionvitt]

Quote: major147

There is no need to "drive horses" now. There is a lot of gas on the market, it's cheap

It's not about cheap gas or the market, but about reinsurance. You never know how the political situation will change tomorrow. And it will change, and very soon and not for the better. Therefore, it is necessary to complete the construction at any cost.

[major147]

Quote: orionvitt

you need to finish building at any cost.

Personally, I don't mind ...

[Ryaruav]

everything is correct, the main thing is that it is already ready for operation, and then it will be seen that the sp-1 is working and this one will be in demand, the main thing is readiness there and the states will then wither, so whether the zeroed one will be able to take out this old cargo

[svp67]

Quote: major147

There is no need to "drive horses" now. There is a lot of gas on the market, it is cheap.

I am afraid that they will bring the "horses" to the point where "they shoot old and useless horses."
The most important thing with the construction of this pipeline is that it must be completed as soon as possible, so that there would already be some kind of argument for the Europeans, in their desire to oppose both American sanctions and their "shale gas"

[aleks26]

Quote: svp67

Half a year has passed in ONE Slogan ...

Where do you see the slogans?

Experts think so.

Do I need to explain that today any milkmaid who has a smartphone / tablet / laptop and has access to the Internet considers herself an expert, moreover, most often in those areas that she does not understand.

Quote: svp67

Guys, you either start to finish building or do not suffer ...

Well, probably they will manage without advisers, people work, or do you think that they should necessarily report to you about their plans? And following the example of Trump, Macron ... on Facebook?

[Vol4ara]

Quote: aleks26

Do I need to explain that today any milkmaid who has a smartphone / tablet / laptop and has access to the Internet considers herself an expert, moreover, most often in those areas that she does not understand.

You are right, how discredited the word "expert" is lately, it is already beginning to cause disgust

[Paranoid50]

Quote: svp67

You either start to finish building or do not suffer ...

The trouble is the trouble ... Yes, the "guys" will figure it out, yeah.

[Vladimir61]

Yes, not with "Fortuna" problem, but with its tenant! But the ship was always advertised as "the flagship of the MRTS fleet - the pipe-laying barge (TUB)" Fortuna ". This is the newest, largest and most modern ship among Russian pipe-laying barges ".

The company "Mezhregiontruboprovodstroy" will not provide the pipe-laying vessel "Fortuna" to complete the construction of the domestic gas pipeline "Nord Stream - 2" (Nord Stream 2). This was reported by the RBC edition with reference to the official statement of the Russian company.

Has this ship turned out to be Russian, and does Russia need such companies and tenants?
Although, after the refusal of Sberbank to work in the Russian Crimea, I am not surprised by anything!

[Thrifty]

"Umka is looking for a friend"! The name just makes you remember this Soviet cartoon!

[APASUS]

Quote: Thrifty

"Umka is looking for a friend"!

There are already three of them
Umka UT-722A Arkhangelsk
"Sivuch" UT -722 Arkhangelsk
"Narwhal" UT-722L Arkhangelsk

[The leader of the Redskins]

But in this case, "... help" ...
Then Chip and Dale is needed!
But they are American heroes, so you can not wait ...

[cost]

The names of the main characters of the Disney cartoon about Chip and Dale were born from a pun - from the surname of the famous master of English furniture art of the Rococo and early classicism. Thomas Chippendale. In English, the name of the animated series sounds like "Chip and Dale".
rice... Thomas Chippendale.

a photo... Monument in London to Thomas Chippendale

Please do not scold me too much for commenting not on the topic of this article.

[Kote Pan Kokhanka]

Scold for what? Superfluous education !!!
On the contrary, plus for comments and photos!

[Mouse]

Not all Chip and Dale are in a hurry to "help" ...

[Same lech]

there were also problems with Fortuna.

“So, for“ Chersky ”now it has become a problem to get insurance - they are trying to solve it with the help of Russian companies. But, apparently, this issue was not agreed with Germany in time, so there was a hitch.

http://neftianka.ru/fortuna-otvernulas-ot-severnogo-potoka-2/

They hit what is called in the belly and surreptitiously ... why so GAZPROM relaxed.

[72jora72]

They hit what is called in the gut and surreptitiously ... why so GAZPROM relaxed

Miller and his “associates” have not regained consciousness for a long time.

[Asad]

Please tell me how Umka can help SP2?

[fn34440]

In March 1957, FKR-1 missiles (the first front-line cruise missile) were delivered to Svoboda Island, the abbreviation of which, again for secrecy purposes, was deciphered as "Fidel Castro Rus-1". Its characteristics were rather modest by today's standards, and although the initial range of 80 kilometers was increased by the efforts of the design bureau of Vladimir Chelomey to more than two hundred kilometers, this cruise missile frightened the "foe" with its nuclear ammunition.
I think the abbreviation "UMKA" may have its own specific decoding, which we learn about after the opening of the ill-fated gas pipeline.

[Cyril G ...]

Umka in Chukchi is Bear ...

[cost]

the bear in Chukotka will be - keiӈyn, but the bear cub will be

[Cyril G ...]

I do not argue, I am not such a deep connoisseur, I served in Chukotka for only three years

[Region68]

Where are you in a hurry?
Report a Great Victory?
Won Turkish Stream was built and what?
There is nothing to download through it ..

[Nastia makarova]

not true !!!! there is something to pump, but the buyer does not need a lot of gas now, the crisis is due to quarantine

[Region68]

Yeah, they started buying more Azerbaijani gas for some reason ..

[New Year day]

Quote: Nastia Makarova

there is something to download

Quote: Nastia Makarova

only the buyer does not need

Quote: Region68

There is nothing to download through it ..

Where is the contradiction?

[72jora72]

Won Turkish Stream was built and what?
There is nothing to download through it ..

as well as through the Power of Siberia ........

[prior]

I'm curious: why sanctions on Russia can be imposed on everyone who does not get caught, but Russia cannot?
Switzerland to roll out sanctions for disrupting the construction of the pipeline.
Germany for the lost benefit due to Switzerland's failure to complete the pipeline.
Turkey for the purchase of gas from Azerbaijan.
America for violence against fellow blacks.
EU for false accusations on Boeing, on Skripals, on Crimea.
Poland for the genocide of Jews before and during the Second World War.
Ukraine for the genocide of the Russian language ... ... and bad loans.
Tired of being white, tired of being fluffy.
I want everyone to tremble, to be respected.
And they did not get confused by any crap and subhuman rights (LGBT).

[Nastia makarova]

we cannot put pressure on the economy, only as long as the United States can press, but Europe can no longer crush with sanctions without states

[prior]

This SASHA was very, very cowardly in front of Leonid Brezhnev, over whom we once giggled. He has not entered into so many disarmament treaties out of fear.
It's just that no one showed him "Kuzma's mother" for a long time.
Got out of breath from impunity.

[Abrosimov Sergey Olegovich]

Quote: Nastia Makarova

we cannot push the economy as long as the us can push

Why can't we ??? As much as we can.
For example to release "Black Swans":
1. In response to US sanctions, suspend titanium supplies and cooperation with Boeing;
2. To suspend (although this should have been done much earlier, now it is too late) the supply of rocket engines to NASA and the delivery / return of their astronauts to / from the ISS;
3. In response to any sanctions from Europe, to suspend the supply of gas and oil to countries that impose / support sanctions, as well as develop / vote for any draft laws limiting the supply of our gas to Europe;
4. Equally immediately restrict gas / oil supplies in any attempt to establish gas supplies from the United States, as well as for attempts to prepare the infrastructure for receiving American gas;
5. Limit the supply of gas and oil for any attempts by European countries to help those who have already been subjected to our sanctions;
As a result, the discussion should go about the following: guys, we will live together, without sanctions and love each other in the most tender way, or you will sit without our gas and oil.
The question is: how long will the European and, in particular, the German economy, last if gas supplies stop?
Another question is that our government is afraid to death ... just what ??? Isn't it obvious that things will get worse - the Europeans and Americans, seeing our toothless, "herbivorous" policy, will continue to crush us and the pressure will only intensify ...

When I was a child, I was taught: Good must be with fists!

[Undecim]

Good must be with fists!
It’s not bad, too, to have brains for the fists.

[Ruswolf]

Quote: prior

I'm curious: why sanctions on Russia can be imposed on everyone who does not get caught, but Russia cannot?

Respected! This is politics! Here the sanctions are imposed not for what you are doing, but because you are appointed guilty.
Therefore, all other arguments have never had any meaning and will never have.

[New Year day]

Quote: prior

Switzerland to roll out sanctions for disrupting the construction of the pipeline.

And the money of the elite will immediately block

Quote: prior

Germany for the lost benefit due to Switzerland's failure to complete the pipeline.

The Germans are our partners, nizya

Quote: prior

Turkey for the purchase of gas from Azerbaijan.

The Turkish stream was built for Russian money. What do Turks have to do with it? They wanted it themselves, they built it

Quote: prior

America for violence against fellow blacks.

The budget of 1 state of America is equal to the budget of the whole of Russia. Try

Quote: prior

EU for false accusations on Boeing, on Skripals, on Crimea.

The trial will end, then we'll hit

Quote: prior

Tired of being white, tired of being fluffy.
I want everyone to tremble, to be respected.

Strength is respected, and strength is the economy, not rockets and tanks. And the economy is tight. So you want

[prior]

Explained. We will die slowly and painfully and guaranteed, since nothing can be done. Did I understand you correctly?

[New Year day]

Quote: prior

Did I understand you correctly?

With the current policy of the authorities, yes. And if they do not draw conclusions from Ukraine and Belarus, then it will be very painful

[Ivan Ivanov_6]

Quote: fn34440

FKR-1 missiles

Yes, how much is already possible, just to scare people! (the whole world). Take care of your country at the end of the month!

[Cyril G ...]

Base areas "PRO" and in fact ground-based launchers Mk.41 where you can load the same Tomahawks of any kind under our noses? NATO offensive too? I also see hordes of American destroyers with hundreds of cruise missiles crawling along our coast. And what did you really want to say?

[Whirlwind]

Obviously, the Kremlin chose the least evil of two evils in the United States - Trump. And before the elections, we will be wandering around with SP-2, so as not to give the crazy demonokrats unnecessary reasons to dump Trump ...

[moreman78]

Quote: fn34440

In March 1957, FKR-1 missiles (the first front-line cruise missile) were delivered to Svoboda Island, the abbreviation of which, again for secrecy purposes, was deciphered as "Fidel Castro Rus-1". Its characteristics were rather modest by today's standards, and although the initial range of 80 kilometers was increased by the efforts of the design bureau of Vladimir Chelomey to more than two hundred kilometers, this cruise missile frightened the "foe" with its nuclear ammunition.
I think the abbreviation "UMKA" may have its own specific decoding, which we learn about after the opening of the ill-fated gas pipeline.

You MUST have a snack!

[Wwk7260]

Is it Umka in the photo? Large for a rescue boat.

[Shilka]

This Nord Stream is ours. Someone in the west, like a bone in the throat .. They make such plows, but there are only 100 km left .. We will finish building anyway !!!! This is a matter of principle already

[tralflot1832]

The real situation is owned only by the captains of these 4 ships and the barge. The rest of the crew may not even know what awaits them tomorrow. Departure or anchorage at the berth. They can only guess by indirect signs. But they have such a contract that it is better to be silent than to speak. the rest can only guess on the coffee grounds. If they have assembled such a ship group they will build. They expect what the United States will do, it can go to extremes. International waters are like that. Moreover, the US has put Gazpromneft on Trump.

[Andobor]

Umka will come and everything will go.

[iouris]

"Umka" and "experts" rush to the rescue.

[mag nit]

In a hurry like "Academician Chersky"?

[pafegosoff]

Why hurry? The gas price will rise - it will spur all the foreign shareholders of SP-2. And now ... well, tease the USA. Let Europe build berths and gas liquefaction stations, and Russia will increase the number of tankers, liquefaction plants (due to their location in the Arctic Circle, the cost of cooling gas will be much less than in the USA, Arabia or North Africa - the temperature difference is from 50 to 80 degrees). So it is not SP-2 alone that you can replenish the budget ...

[Abrosimov Sergey Olegovich]

Quote: Undecim

Good must be with fists!
It’s not bad, too, to have brains for the fists.

Tell me, when in a dark alley a group of gopniks starts digging towards you, will you preach non-resistance to evil by violence? Or maybe you will start a highly intellectual philosophical debate about the inadmissibility of violence?
Or will you try to protect yourself with completely physical methods?
Isn't it obvious that the US and the collective West are waging a war against us !!!

[litus]

You can just show the gun, you don't have to fight