EUROPIPE překonal Baltské moře s Oerlikon materiály

For the first section of the Nord Stream gas pipeline under the Baltic, EUROPIPE has already delivered 82,500 steel pipes. In January, it won a new contract for the supply of 70,000 more. Like the first batch, they will be assembled with Oerlikon’s approved OP 132 welding flux. 

Withstanding extreme conditions
The Nord Stream gas pipeline will link Europe to Russia’s natural gas deposits in Ioujno-Russkoïe, the Yamal peninsula and Shtokman. The pipeline will be twice 1,200 kms in length and will cross the Baltic between Vyborg in Russia and Lubmin in Germany. Some of the pipes will be laid at depths of 210 metres. Sized to cope with an operating pressure starting of 220 bars when they leave Russia, they have a constant internal diameter of 1 153 mm and a thickness of up to 41 mm. 

Several links on the horizon
When completed, the pipeline will carry 55 billion m3 of natural gas every year. Moreover, a 470 km connection pipeline (annual capacity: 35 billion m3) will be connected in Lubmin to provide a link to Olbernhau, near the German-Czech border. Other connections are expected to follow, to Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, France and the Czech Republic.