US State Department proposed to impose sanctions against pipelayer "Fortune"

The US State Department has not proposed any new sanctions against the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline under construction. Bloomberg reported this with reference to a report for the US Congress.

According to the newspaper, the list includes the Russian pipe-laying barge Fortuna and the owner of the KBT-Rus vessel, which are already subject to restrictions imposed by Donald Trump. At the same time, it is noted that the report does not contain a proposal to impose sanctions against any German or European companies involved in the construction of the Russian gas pipeline.

It is assumed that the absence of new sanctions indicates the desire of the new US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, not to spoil relations between Washington and Berlin, which intends to complete the construction of the gas pipeline.

Earlier, the White House set conditions for Berlin for the successful completion of Nord Stream 2. Joe Biden's administration proposed to Germany to create some kind of mechanism that would prevent the gas pipeline from operating in the event of a reduction in gas transit through Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called these conditions humiliating.

Now they are writing openly that bargaining is underway and discussing the possibility of agreements between Washington and Berlin, according to which Nord Stream 2, okay, God bless you, let it be completed, let it function, but if suddenly gas transit through Ukraine suddenly decreases, then Nord Stream 2 will be shut down. I cannot decide for Germany, but the fact that this is a humiliating proposal is obvious to me

- said the Russian minister.

Comments

[tralflot1832]

Yesterday I assumed these sanctions. The crew and the owner. They reported to the voter. Read it. We are building further.

[vkl.47]

The pipelayer is okay. But where are the sanctions against the yellow fret of the viburnum that drove the darkest?

[vkl.47]

The pipelayer is okay. But where are the sanctions against the yellow fret of the viburnum that drove the darkest?

[Nikon O'Conor]

Our solution was found long ago. The ship will be renamed, the company will be re-registered - and the pipe will continue to be pulled ... We have such scams that private traders run in a couple of days (they show it once a week on the news), and only at the state level ...
pulls the pipe of LLC BaltTransGaz on the "Penetrating" (exaggerating), tomorrow will pull "GazEuroTrans" on the "Experiencing" ...

[tralflot1832]

So far, I do not see a reason even in periimination. The problem of certification of the pipeline itself needs to be resolved.

[Gennady Fomkin]

During the whistle blowing with the completion of North Stream 2, the gas price has risen by $ 100, so the profit is so high that you don't have to complete anything at all. Just sit and store the money. ..there are two more tankers under the flag of the Russian Federation, not small :( "Sierra" (DW105000 tns) and "Maksim Gorky" (DW320000 tns) hung up. Both are from the "Venezuelan Shipping Company" under our cover. Well, that doesn't matter. They have already seen everything.

At least a wagon of sanctions in every tank.

[tralflot1832]

Maxim Gorky is great, he turns on the AIS in Venezuela and China. And then there is silence, like 350 thousand. The crew will work normally, sailing under the Russian flag!

[Mustachioed Georgian]

Damn, the second part of the Marleson ballet.

[GELEZNII_KAPUT]

The dependence on the pipe does not give us the opportunity to disconnect Ukraine from transit and shift the costs of its maintenance to the United States, this is all that can be said about how we "got off the pipe"!

[Sidor Amenpodestovich]

Quote: GELEZNII_KAPUT

Pipe dependence

And who is more dependent on the pipe, the gas seller or the buyer?

[askort154]

Sidor Amenpodestovich ....And who is more dependent on the pipe, the gas seller or the buyer?

Today, "Santa Claus" in Europe, has given a clear answer to this question. And the euro-officials became thoughtful.

[antivirus]

We've all gone from the question 1/2, the load of the power of the sp2 and the continuation dry. Whose bank will spin the loot? Disconnect the outskirts at whose expense did not decide .. ownership of pipes and vaults inside the euro. It remains to wait 5 years and enjoy everything. We wanted to break our profits in 19 year chatter. This is strength and weakness. Kohlov must be dried. And the Poles.

[GELEZNII_KAPUT]

And who is more dependent on the pipe, the gas seller or the buyer?

It all depends on market monopolization.

[Sidor Amenpodestovich]

Quote: GELEZNII_KAPUT

It all depends on market monopolization.

That is, both the seller and the buyer. Not always equally, but both.

[Starover_Z]

Quote: GELEZNII_KAPUT

The dependence on the pipe does not give us the opportunity to disconnect Ukraine from transit and shift the costs of its maintenance to the United States, this is all that can be said about how we "got off the pipe"!

And what, Russia pays for gas transit through the territory of Ukraine and still supposedly has to maintain the GTS in working order ?! And with what fright ?! There is no union, has the GTS in Ukraine become Ukrainian? So let it be kept, since they want to receive for the transit of gas through it! Anyway, they got the ball!
Otherwise, I bought a bike, rode, punctured the tires and with a claim to the seller or manufacturer - do it for me? An indescribable sample!

[venik]

Quote: GELEZNII_KAPUT

The dependence on the pipe does not give us the opportunity to disconnect Ukraine from transit and shift the costs of its maintenance to the United States

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They are chirping - for eight .. Sorry - they count "in the fall"! The contract between Gazprom and Naftogaz expires in 2014 .... And will it be extended? And in WHAT volumes? .... Big, big question!

[Gennady Fomkin]

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Igor Ananskikh noted that the order has already been given to the pipelayer, it is working.

“It's a big grief - he won't be able to work in the California or Florida area at the request of the American government. The owners of this pipelayer will survive this problem, ”the deputy told an RT correspondent.

KMK is now hampering the construction of the SP-2 not by sanctions against the barge, but by the withdrawal from the project of certification and insurance companies. This is a really urgent problem now.

[carstorm 11]

The Germans decide for themselves by creating a hotel holding somehow)

[Gennady Fomkin]

Here you are laughing, and the State Department is now engaged in a five-year plan: sanctions against a barge, then against cranes on a barge, against ropes, anchors, latrines, and so on. - thousands of commodity items, two per day - for the entire period of work! Then you can impose sanctions on pipes, fittings, flanges, insulation, electrodes, and so on ... KVT-RUS of income for 2019 -0 !!!! Do you really think everyone in Russia and Germany is mentally retarded idiots? This company is a dummy, it was created specifically for the successful conduct of economic hostilities under the sanctioned shelling of any power and intensity. All that remains effective for the United States is to inflict a real missile and torpedo attack on the pipelayer from a destroyer, but in such a case it can always be transferred to the balance of the Russian Navy. Bghh.

[prior]

This is how it is in the third world - a war for resources, a war for financial flows, a war for geopolitical influence, a war of traders.

[carstorm 11]

Wars always go for resources. They are just different.

[rotmistr60]

if the gas transit through Ukraine suddenly decreases in parallel, then Nord Stream 2 will be closed. I cannot decide for Germany, but the fact that this is a humiliating proposal is obvious to me

To begin with, Germany is no stranger to humiliation by Washington. They drove it under the bunk in due time, now sit and do not rock the boat. But about the overlap is interesting. Suppose we reduce the transit through Ukraine to 0, Germany in response shuts off the SP-2 and ... sits without gas at all?

[Kronos]

And he buys gas from other suppliers.

[rotmistr60]

And he buys gas from other suppliers.

Does the USA have LNG? Why, then, Germany is fighting so hard for SP-2 today and not buying gas from “other suppliers,” tell me?

[tralflot1832]

American LNG producers did not support the wishes of the State Department. If you want to strangle Nord Stream 2, pay the State Department money. When you say the dollar, American patriotism ends. LNG plants on the Atlantic coast, a short way to Southeast Asia through the Panama Canal - a plug, from gas carriers. You have to drive them across the Atlantic and Indian ocean. The price of gas in Southeast Asia is several times higher than in Europe. That's what the market is doing!

[Mountain shooter]

Quote: Kronos

And he buys gas from other suppliers.

They could - they would buy ... Such volumes are simply nowhere to be found. And there will be even less. The Dutch are shutting down production, Norway's fields are drying up ... All these pipelines from Middle-earth - the volumes will not block ... Everyone has counted everything for a long time ...

[Lech from Android.]

Green energy will help out, the current bad weather has brought down the green party. The windmills were frozen, the solar panels were covered with snow, the sun was covered with clouds ... A complete tryndets, without gas, oil, coal, it turns out to be impossible.

[svp67]

That the fantasy ends? It is necessary to add the Baltic Sea to the sanctions list and PROHIBIT all ships to use it ...

[Gennady Fomkin]

This series will end only when all the actors die of old age.

[Lech from Android.]

Biden is already in the hole with one foot, we gain patience, popcorn and wait for the second episode.

[carstorm 11]

Rather, from laughter, because everything has already passed to outright stupidity. The weather has already had them, but everyone will not understand.

[rocket757]

According to the newspaper, the list includes the Russian pipe-laying barge "Fortuna" and the company that owns the ship "KBT-Rus", in respect of which there are already restrictions imposed under Donald Trump.

So the WEATHER is not favorable to the extreme decisions of the new strip administration! The freezing, angry gamers can send this time ...

[taiga2018]

To impose sanctions on the bottom of the Baltic Sea and on the sea itself for not hindering construction, as well as on fish and other inhabitants of the deep sea for indifferently observing the construction, on the wind, snow and rain for not taking any measures to interfere with the construction ... I give these proposals to the State Department completely free of charge, although I can accept payment with a box of cookies and a barrel of jam ...

[Cowbra]

I propose this sanction: Prohibit the pipelayer Fortuna from pulling the Keystone pipeline from Canada to the USA! And as soon as they cannot last it - let's say that our sanctions work like clockwork!
Moreover, the pipeline runs by land, and the administration of Bidon has already banned it. and psaki advised dismissed workers to "just find another job." So don't risk anything

[Ros 56]

Fortune took a deep breath, mentally sent the striped forest (and what did you want from the barge?) And continued laying the SP-2 pipes.

[Klingon]

the transition of a civilization of level 0 on the Kardashev scale (burning of fossil resources) to a civilization of level 1 (clean energy sources, thermonuclear fusion, solar oil, fuel cells) will be long and painful, there is a chance that the civilization will destroy itself in the struggle for the remaining resources

[Hey]

I would have done it easier. Would include the pipelayer in the Navy, so to speak, a unit of the pipeline troops. No insurance, no nonsense. We go wherever we want in international waters, when entering the territorial waters - friendly luck.

[Gennady Fomkin]

Quote: prior

This is how it is in the third world - a war for resources, a war for financial flows, a war for geopolitical influence, a war of traders.

Oh, given? Under the communist regime, imagine the same

[Gennady Fomkin]

Why squeeze the first joint venture? Good! Europka will freeze and will run around with buckets of gas to carry for euros per cubic meter.

[Gennady Fomkin]

Quote: MUD

I would have done it easier. Would include the pipelayer in the Navy, so to speak, a unit of the pipeline troops. No insurance, no nonsense. We go wherever we want in international waters, when entering the territorial waters - friendly luck.

The Pentagon reads VO in the original, be careful with advice. I was joking, you were joking, and there people are serious, they like to be reckless and will send "Zamvolt". For experiments .. to the construction site and it breaks there - it will stupidly interfere.

[Dynamic systems]

Why don't we impose sanctions on NASA?
And even about deliberately drilled holes in the Station!

[three]

Nice winter. Everything falls into place: Greta goes to school, LNG from the US goes to Southeast Asia, our gas goes to the EU (I would add Miller to social security, but hardly ...). Nice winter. Gas carriers from America "with songs" slipped past freezing Europe and even the price of 700 in Spain, and even 330 in Holland - did not deceive, excuse me, goofs, there in Southeast Asia - 1000 each. Is it just more expensive, isn't this "democratic values ​​- FREEDOM of trade, freedom of choice! We in Russia supply freezing people with stoves, generators, blankets, clothes, food, and the "fathers of democracy" - gas for 1000 or, like in Texas, electricity for 900 per month (instead of the usual 50-70). it's great to freeze freely in Texas than to be rotten on a computer in a warm apartment in a conditional totalitarian Tomsk ... Therefore, only sanctions against Russia. They don't need to sell their LNG (63% of LNG in the US is shipped on FOB (free on board) i.e. amers don't give a damn about where the gas carriers will go), they need to prevent Russia from making money and reduce Germany's competitiveness, hiding behind "concern for poor transit countries" like Poland-Ukraine.

[Gennady Fomkin]

Let them fire brown coal and gas stolen from the Arabs to send "partners" away - it will soon run out, in Iraq a maximum of 20-30 years will also be enough.

[Svetlana]

Quote: Nikon OConor

Our solution was found long ago. The ship will be renamed, the company will be re-registered - and the pipe will continue to be pulled ... We have such scams that private traders run in a couple of days (they show it once a week on the news), and only at the state level ...
pulls the pipe of LLC BaltTransGaz on the "Penetrating" (exaggerating), tomorrow will pull "GazEuroTrans" on the "Experiencing" ...

Although there is some truth in this, in fact, everything is not so simple. As I understand it, one of the main problems is certification problems, which cost both money and time. It is not for nothing that they still cannot connect Chersky.