Russian Oil and Gas Industry: News #3

kvs wrote:Part of the reason for the slow pace is that the seas are more rough in winter.   Yes, that is a real thing.   The zonal wind speed
increases during winter in the corresponding hemisphere in the troposphere.    This is due to the change in the pole-equator temperature
gradient.   There is no pipe laying on storm days.

A storm in the southern part of the Baltic Sea again halted the completion of Nord Stream 2. In contrast, however, from February, unstable weather is expected in the area of ​​the gas pipeline laying for only a few days.

kvs wrote:
Mercouris has seen information that NS 2 is 98% done.   That sounds about right.

kvs wrote:https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2021/03/03/fortuna-dostroila-pervye-desyat-kilometrov-severnogo-potoka-2

As of March 3 the Fortuna had 39 km of pipeline left to build in Danish waters and 13.9 km in German waters.
There is no clarity on the total remaining.

Angela Merkel’s party takes a hammering in German state elections – exit polls

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party has suffered heavy losses in two state elections, as the long-ruling leader fights corruption scandals and looks to choose a successor for this year’s elections.
Voters in the states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate went to the polls on Sunday, and by the time exit polls were published that evening, it was clear that they had given Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a drubbing.

The CDU could once count on support from Baden-Wuerttemberg, an industrial state which is home to auto manufacturers Porsche, Daimler, and Mercedes-Benz. However, the Green Party was projected by TV network ZDF to take home 31.5% of the vote, leaving the CDU in second place with 23%, down 4% from 2016. In Baden-Wuerttemberg, the CDU is, and looks set to remain, the junior partner in a coalition with the Greens.

Neighboring Rhineland-Palatinate is also ruled by a coalition, with the CDU playing second fiddle to the center-left Social Democrats (SDP). By Sunday evening, ZDF predicted that the SDP would lose 2.7%, hanging on to first place with 33.5% of the vote. The CDU is predicted to come in second with 25.5%, down 6.3% since 2016. The Greens are predicted to pick up more than 4%, with a smattering of smaller parties taking minor gains and losses.

Right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), which more than doubled its share of the vote in two state elections in 2019, had a relatively disappointing outing on Sunday. The party was predicted to come in third place in both Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, scoring 12.5% and 10.5% respectively. Both figures are around two percent lower than 2016’s results.

Germany is betting the U.S. administration will take a pragmatic approach to the Nord Stream 2 project to ship Russian gas to Europe and is pushing for the pipeline’s completion in defiance of U.S. opposition, officials and diplomats said.

slasher wrote:Analysis: Germany bets U.S. will make the best of 'bad deal' Nord Stream gas link
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL8N2LD36U

Germany is betting the U.S. administration will take a pragmatic approach to the Nord Stream 2 project to ship Russian gas to Europe and is pushing for the pipeline’s completion in defiance of U.S. opposition, officials and diplomats said.

kvs wrote:It really is very funny how so-called independent countries in Europe have to bend over for the capricious policies of the USA.
Since when did Germany ever require US input on NS2?

Shows you how distorted is the public perception space that such bending of the knee to colonial control is considered normal.

magnumcromagnon wrote:

kvs wrote:It really is very funny how so-called independent countries in Europe have to bend over for the capricious policies of the USA.
Since when did Germany ever require US input on NS2?

Shows you how distorted is the public perception space that such bending of the knee to colonial control is considered normal.

I think it had something to do with Volkswagen's emission scandal, which was the first warning shot against NS2 by Uncle Sham.

JohninMK wrote:The US is not going to let up on its pressure. Germany has to re-realise that it is a vassal. This could get nasty as the US imposes its will. This is a lesson for the others and not one it can afford to lose.

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