The construction of the Portovaya compressor station was started on Friday. The station will be the last land-based unit in the Nord Stream project. The station, which will have six 52 MWh and two 27 MWh gas pumping stations, will pump gas all the 1200 km through the Baltic Sea.
-Our next step will be the construction of the offshore pipeline, company leader Aleksey Miller said when visiting the site last week, a press release reads.
The unique station will be taken into operation in 2011.
The Portovaya station will be linked with the 900 km long Vyborg-Gryazovets pipeline. According to Gazprom, 600 km of this line has already been built. It stretches over Leningrad and Vologda Oblasts.
The Nord Stream pipeline will run on the sea bottom of the Baltic Sea in the territorial waters of Denmark, Germany, Russia, Finland and Sweden. It will have a capacity of 55 billion tons of gas per year and be completed in 2012.
