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MOSCOW – Gazprom has laid 1,628 kilometers of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the Russian gas giant said in a statement.

“Construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline continues. So far 1,628 km or 66.3 percent of the overall length has been completed along the Baltic Sea bed,” it said.

The off-shore pipeline, with capacity of 55 bcm of gas per year, is set to run from the Slavyanskaya compressor station in the Leningrad region’s Kingisepp district to Germany’s Baltic shore.