Subsea section of Baltic Pipe may be completed this year - official

The underwater stretch of the Baltic Pipe gasline to link Norway's gasbeds with Denmark and Poland could be completed this year, weather permitting, a government official said on Thursday. Piotr Naimski, the government's commissioner for strategic energy infrastructure, told the Senate (upper house) that the Polish-Danish pipeline's seabed section will be built by a special pipe-laying ship, which will set out from Rotterdam to the Baltic Pipe site on May 5.