Powerful ship Solitaire builds a Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on the Russian Baltic

A 300 m long and 41 m wide Solitaire vessel is one of the largest vessels in the world. It is owned by Allseas, which specializes in the construction of pipelines. The company also owns an even larger – 382 m in full length and 124 m wide – unit Pioneering Spirit, which is also involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. In fact, Allseas itself is constantly cooperating with Russian Gazprom. Recently, Pioneering Spirit was used to build a Turk Stream pipeline through the Black Sea. Furthermore, at the moment Pioneering Spirit places pipes in the Swedish exclusive economic zone in the Baltic.

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Now Nord Stream 2 AG reported that the Solitaire unit had been laying pipes in the Russian Baltic Sea for seven days a week 24 hours a day. There are 420 people on board the ship. The gas pipeline building company stated in the communication that 12-metre-long concrete-coated steel pipe components are used to build the pipeline. Each of these elements weighs about 24 tons. These elements are delivered to the sea from the logistics center, which is located in the Finnish town of Kotka, located on the northern Baltic Sea. In total, a 114-kilometre stretch of gas pipeline will run through the Russian Baltic Sea.

Nord Stream 2 AG ensures in a published communication that the construction work "walks well and according to plans". This concerns works carried out in Russian and German areas, where there are points of entry and exit of the future pipeline to and from the sea. The company also stated that more than 1,100 km of Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline had already been built.

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