ship the world's largest Pipelay completed its work in the Nord Stream project in the outside, Finland

Completed Solitaire Allseas', the ship the world's largest pipelay, and work on Line 2 pipeline Nord Stream natural gas across the Baltic Sea before the deadline. and put the ship 342.5 km of pipelines in each of the twin Gulf of Finland.

"The tragedies have not lived up to our expectations all," Nord Stream construction manager Ruurd Hoekstra, " The diamond is a ship dynamically positioned, which operate without anchors, and only in the pipeline at the bottom of the sea touches itself along the way agreed. This was crucial for us in the Gulf of Finland with the lines of the historic mines and the busy sea lanes. using Solitaire helped us to minimize the impact on the environment and maritime traffic in this section a safe area around the pipeline could be smaller than that. "

"All in all, and has developed some of the Solitaire 57 000 and 24 tons pipe along this section is 342.5 km from the main road. the quality of work was excellent, and they were not to be able to fulfill its mission a few weeks before the deadline, " said Hoekstra.

In the 300 meters in length and 40.6 meters, the team Allseas Swiss-based Solitaire is the length of three football fields. the vessel has a large pipe carrying 22000 tons of capacity and workstations at multiple levels to enable them to receive and store 12 meters 24 tons pipe and welding together, test welds, and join tubes for pipelines, it lies on the seabed along the route agreed upon. Solitaire has been running with a crew of 405, has been planting tube 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for Nord Stream for almost a year.

Completed the first of the Nord Stream pipeline double miles in June, in June 1224 and is currently in the final stages of pre-commissioning. It is expected the flow of gas to the pipeline by starting in the fourth quarter of this year. will line 1 has the ability to transfer 27.5 billion m cubic of natural gas annually to Europe. is set in the second pipeline to be operational in late 2012, doubling the transport capacity to 55 billion cubic meters.