This pipeline starts from Viborg, an important town and port in the northwest of Russia in the east, passes through Ukraine in the west, and ends in Grifswald, a city in the northeast of Germany and a bay city near the Baltic Sea. The total length is 1224 km, which is comparable to some railway arteries in Russia. However, this huge gas pipeline project can be put into practice without paper, which is also inseparable from some difficulties in Germany and Russia.
Among them, Russia's hardship is financial shortage. As the supreme leader of Russia, even if he is as ambitious as Putin, he is constrained by the budget and wants to buy missiles. No money! Want to upgrade the army? There is a fiscal deficit.
In September, 20021year, this project, which took more than 10 years from evaluation to laying, was finally completed at the cost of 1 1 billion dollars.
Five months later, the situation in Ukraine deteriorated, and the German government decided to suspend the certification process of the "Beixi -2" natural gas pipeline project. According to the White House, "Beixi -2 has been buried at the bottom of the sea."
Perhaps it is rare to find a controversial project like "Beixi -2" since its birth. The quarrels and differences surrounding it have never stopped, and the drama of sanctions and lifting sanctions against this project has been staged repeatedly. Beixi -2, long stigmatized by the United States as a "Russian geopolitical project", is now used as a lever to put pressure on Russia.
10 years later, "Beixi -2" directly entered the "standby" state before it could run, waiting for the day of "restart" at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.