Nord Stream AG has awarded Technip a $47.6 million frame contract for the Nord Stream pipelay project in the Baltic Sea, designed to export gas from fields in Russia to customers in Europe.

Gazprom’s management committee has been reviewing construction progress on the Dzhubga-Lazarevskoye-Sochi gas pipeline, much of which will follow an offshore route under the Russian sector of the Black Sea.

Bredero Shaw has agreed with OOO ArkhTekhnoProm to establish a pipe coating facility in Russia’s Arkhangelsk region that will provide advanced concrete weight coating services to the northern Russia offshore pipeline market.

Russia and Turkmenistan have signed amendments to a long-term gas purchase and sales contract established in April 2003.

Nord Stream has received a permit to construct the 123-km (76-mi) Russian section of its 1,223-km (760-mi) natural gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea.

Vice Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Ivanovich Sechin, Russian Minister of Energy Sergei Shmatko, Minister of Energy of the Republic of Turkey Taner Yildiz, and Minister for Economic Development of the Italian Republic Claudio Scajola signed a joint statement concerning the construction of the Samsun-Ceyhan oil pipeline between Turkey's Black Sea coast and its Mediterranean coast.

Gazprom has welded the first joint of the Dzhubga-Lazarevskoye-Sochi gas pipeline.