Order of defining the design and construction in two phases, the Baltic Pipeline System-2 on the route g.Unecha (Bryansk region) - Ust-Luga (Leningrad Region) signed December 1, President of the Government of Vladimir Putin. The pipeline would be an alternative pipeline Druzhba oil in transit to the European Union via Belarus and Poland. The total length of BTS-2 reaches about 1300 kilometers, the pipeline is scheduled to launch in 2012.
Talks on the construction of the pipeline began in early 2007, when between Russia and Belarus began debate on energy prices and transit fees on oil. The project was caused by political confrontation between Moscow and Minsk, and from the outset has been criticized for its economic weakness and political engagement.
Difficulties with the construction of the pipeline predicted Director of the Department of Due Diligence SAG “2K Audit - Business consulting Alexander Stock:” open to question how the oil will be filled with “pipe” capacity of 50 million tons. Previously it was assumed that the issue would be resolved through increase oil production in Russia, but the fact that the increase in production would be in line with the forecast. Some hope, and on foreign suppliers - primarily on Kazakhstan. But most likely, filled with BTS-2 will be at the expense of the oil pipeline Druzhba, so since the latter also requires a huge investment in the overhaul, and invested in two essentially duplicate the pipeline is unlikely to be the “Transneft” appropriate “. He agrees, and Bank of Moscow analyst Vladimir Vedeneyev: “According to preliminary calculations Transneft, the project cost amounts to 120-130 billion rubles. ($ 4.3-4.6 billion). News of the actual beginning of the project BTS-2 saw as a negative for Transneft Because companies will markedly increase the debt burden, while the investment data will not lead to increased prokachki and hence revenues. ”
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Not all smoothly and with the construction of gas pipeline “Nord Stream”, to be held in the bottom of the Baltic Sea, bypassing the Baltic states and Poland to Germany. His opponents called the project dangerous for the environment that has led the push starting dates of gas in the second half of 2011. Interesting energy Vladimir Putin's warning was made on 12 November at a meeting with the Prime Minister of Finland Matti Vanhanenom. “Europe must decide: Europeans want pipe gas from Russia in the volume that it proposes, or do not need … I want to make it clear: we do not” prodavlivaem “this decision, this is nothing more than our European customers. If there is no pipe, then, will szhizhat enterprises, tankers to load and send to the world markets, including the European. Only the more expensive it will be for you - that's the thing. That's all. So the count, easily considered ” . His Finnish counterpart, probably calculated, because he made such a statement: “Company” Nord Stream “, according to our information, provide packages of documents, environmental impact assessment in January or February of next year. Once these materials will be available, We promptly review the matter. Finland holds this view that Central Europe needs Russian natural gas which will be supplied on the pipeline “.
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Next year will be for both projects is largely critical. Ecological Expertise “Nord Stream” either end or become an insurmountable obstacle. And economic feasibility of the construction of BTS-2 in a budgetary savings, the fall in oil prices and production of raw materials may be in question.
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Order of defining the design and construction in two phases, the Baltic Pipeline System-2 on the route g.Unecha (Bryansk region) - Ust-Luga (Leningrad Region) signed December 1, President of the Government of Vladimir Putin. The pipeline would be an alternative pipeline Druzhba oil in transit to the European Union via Belarus and Poland. The total length of BTS-2 reaches about 1300 kilometers, the pipeline is scheduled to launch in 2012.
Talks on the construction of the pipeline began in early 2007, when between Russia and Belarus began debate on energy prices and transit fees on oil. The project was caused by political confrontation between Moscow and Minsk, and from the outset has been criticized for its economic weakness and political engagement.
Difficulties with the construction of the pipeline predicted Director of the Department of Due Diligence SAG “2K Audit - Business consulting Alexander Stock:” open to question how the oil will be filled with “pipe” capacity of 50 million tons. Previously it was assumed that the issue would be resolved through increase oil production in Russia, but the fact that the increase in production would be in line with the forecast. Some hope, and on foreign suppliers - primarily on Kazakhstan. But most likely, filled with BTS-2 will be at the expense of the oil pipeline Druzhba, so since the latter also requires a huge investment in the overhaul, and invested in two essentially duplicate the pipeline is unlikely to be the “Transneft” appropriate “. He agrees, and Bank of Moscow analyst Vladimir Vedeneyev: “According to preliminary calculations Transneft, the project cost amounts to 120-130 billion rubles. ($ 4.3-4.6 billion). News of the actual beginning of the project BTS-2 saw as a negative for Transneft Because companies will markedly increase the debt burden, while the investment data will not lead to increased prokachki and hence revenues. ”
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Not all smoothly and with the construction of gas pipeline “Nord Stream”, to be held in the bottom of the Baltic Sea, bypassing the Baltic states and Poland to Germany. His opponents called the project dangerous for the environment that has led the push starting dates of gas in the second half of 2011. Interesting energy Vladimir Putin's warning was made on 12 November at a meeting with the Prime Minister of Finland Matti Vanhanenom. “Europe must decide: Europeans want pipe gas from Russia in the volume that it proposes, or do not need … I want to make it clear: we do not” prodavlivaem “this decision, this is nothing more than our European customers. If there is no pipe, then, will szhizhat enterprises, tankers to load and send to the world markets, including the European. Only the more expensive it will be for you - that's the thing. That's all. So the count, easily considered ” . His Finnish counterpart, probably calculated, because he made such a statement: “Company” Nord Stream “, according to our information, provide packages of documents, environmental impact assessment in January or February of next year. Once these materials will be available, We promptly review the matter. Finland holds this view that Central Europe needs Russian natural gas which will be supplied on the pipeline “.
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Next year will be for both projects is largely critical. Ecological Expertise “Nord Stream” either end or become an insurmountable obstacle. And economic feasibility of the construction of BTS-2 in a budgetary savings, the fall in oil prices and production of raw materials may be in question.
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