Norway boosted its Europipe II test launch with a special vessel amid Nord Stream explosions.
Norway has sent a specialized vessel to test an underwater gas pipeline in Germany. The reason for this decision was safety concerns following the destruction of two Nord Stream pipelines. Reuters reported this on Friday, October 7.
Norway put its energy sector on high alert last week, deploying its navy and air force to patrol offshore installations and stationing soldiers at onshore gas processing plants.
Havila Subsea, an ROV-equipped oilfield service vessel, was deployed on 5 October to inspect the Europipe II pipeline. It runs from the Kaarstoe gas works in Norway to Dornum in Germany.
The inspection was ordered by Equinor, which is conducting pipeline inspections on behalf of offshore gas system operator Gassco, Reach Subsea CEO, which operates Havila Subsea, Jostein Alendahl, told Reuters.
Europipe II is “Norwegian’s most important pipeline,” said Thor Ivar Strömmen, senior lecturer at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy.
“A major disruption of the gas flow to Germany could trigger political pressure that would change the dynamics of the ongoing confrontation with Russia,” he explained.
The capacity of the 658-kilometer Europipe II gas pipeline is 71 million cubic meters of gas per day – a fifth of Norway’s total pipeline exports.
Recall that Sweden published the findings of the investigation into the Sevpotok explosions.
As you know, last week, underwater explosions damaged the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines in four places in the economic zones of Sweden and Denmark.
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