On Gazprom's contract by Nord Stream-2 claim Technip, Allseas, Royal IHC and Saipem - newspaper

To participate in the tender of "Gazprom" on the construction of Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea claimed four western contractor. This Italian Saipem, Technip French, Swiss and Dutch Allseas Royal IHC, the newspaper "Kommersant".

The contract price for the construction of two lines of the total length of 2.5 thousand. Km, according to sources, publications, will exceed $ 4 billion. The results of the tender announced by the end of last year, planed in January.

Nord Stream-2 - gas pipeline length of about 1.25 thousand kilometers across the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany.. Assumed to be two lines of total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters per year. Participants in the project in addition to "Gazprom" (50%) are German E.On and BASF / Wintershall, the Anglo-Dutch Shell, Austrian OMV and the French Engie (10%). The total project cost is estimated "Gazprom" to 10 billion euros.

Of the four candidates only Royal IHC no experience in major Russian projects. Thus, Technip with Japanese JGC is the main contractor for the LNG plant "Yamal LNG" "Novatek", and also has contracts for the preparation of the FEED, design and supply of equipment for a variety of project settings "Sibur" "Zapsibneftehim". In Allseas was contracted to lay on the seabed about 900 km of pipes for the other pipeline «Gazprom» - South Stream, and then to replace this project "Turkish Stream".

But the most obvious contender for the contract for the construction of Nord Stream-2 is Saipem, because it was she who built the first Nord Stream. However, due to the cancellation of South Stream and protracted negotiations with Ankara, "Turkish Stream" pipe-laying vessels Saipem idle in the Black Sea, and "Gazprom" had to pay a penalty to the contractor. As a result, "Gazprom" has terminated the contract after Saipem did not go to monopoly concessions.

According to the newspaper, any of the possible contractors will work under Western sanctions against Russia's oil and gas sector, that is, he will have to ask the authorities of the country permission to lay the pipeline.

TASS News Agency of Russia

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