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11/02/23 09:11 AM IST

Nord Stream gas pipelines

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  • A veteran American investigative journalist has claimed that the September 2022 bombing of the undersea Nord Stream gas pipelines was carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a covert operation at the direction of the White House.
Nord Stream
  • It is a network of offshore natural gas pipelines in Europe which run under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany.
  • It comprises two separate projects –
  • Nord Stream 1 ran from Vyborg, in northwestern Russia near Finland, and entered service in 2011.
  • Nord Stream 2 runs from Ust-Luga in northwestern Russia near Estonia. The pipeline (completed in 2021) was built in order to double annual capacity but has not yet entered service.
  • The 1,224 km-long Nord Stream pipeline runs from Vyborg in northwest Russia to Lubmin in northeastern Germany.
  • The company behind the project is Nord Stream AG, which was established in Switzerland in 2005 in partnership with Gazprom — “ a publicly traded Russian company producing enormous profits for shareholders which are dominated by oligarchs known to be in the thrall of (Russia’s President) Putin.
  • In 2015, Gazprom and five other European firms announced plans to build Nord Stream 2, an $11 billion project that would run from Ust-Luga in Russia to Greifswald in Germany through the Baltic Sea and carry 55 billion cubic metres of gas per year.
  • The construction of the 1,200 km-long pipelines was completed in 2021.

Source- Indian Express

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