Recently the Nord Stream AG company website joyously reports to all about how the world’s largest pipeline-laying vessel Solitaire has completed its complex of works with respect to the laying of the first line of the «Nord Stream» gas pipeline. In just ten months of work, three pipeline laying vessels have already laid 1000 km of pipeline, consisting of 83,300 pieces. This comprises two of the three sections of the first line. The remaining 220 km of the first line will be completed by the vessel Castoro Sei of the Saipem company in April 2011. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. “We have completed laying the most complex part of the gas pipeline according to schedule. As of today on the bottom of the Baltic Sea already more than 80% of the first line of the «Nord stream» has been laid,” – said deputy director of Nord Stream for construction Ruurd Hoekstra. “The laying is being carried out precisely along the route agreed upon with the state organs of Russia and Finland. I am pleased to report that everything has gone according to plan.”