"Siemens" will supply equipment for supervisory control and electrical systems for the offshore section of the "South Stream"

The company South Stream Transport B.V. and company " Siemens AG " concluded a contract for the supply of electrical systems and instrumentation for the off-shore gas pipeline "South Stream" . In accordance with it,  " Siemens " will deliver telecommunications equipment and automatic control systems and control landfalls in Russia and Bulgaria, as well as equipment for the Centra of South Stream Transport.

The offshore part of the pipeline "South Stream" will consist of four parallel lines laid under the Black Sea . The length of each will be more than 930 km . During the operation 40 million cubic meters meters of gas will pump up through each thread per day. All gas flows will be monitored around the clock from a central control point of South Stream Transport.

In March 2014 South Stream Transport signed a contract for the construction of the first line of the offshore section of the "South Stream ". It also signed contracts for the supply of approximately 150,000 pipes for the first two lines of the offshore pipeline . The laying of the "South Stream" will begin in fall of 2014. Construction of pipeline's first line will continue until the third quarter of 2015. At the end of the same year, the first line will be put into expluatation.

Planning , construction and subsequent operation of the offshore pipeline "South Stream" are  engaged in an international cooperative activity of South Stream Transport BV Shareholders of the company "Gazprom" ( 50 %), ENI ( 20 %), Wintershall and EDF ( 15% each) . "South Stream" is a global infrastructure project of "Gazprom" with gas pipeline capacity of 63 billion cubic meters across the Black Sea to South and Central Europe in order to diversify export routes for natural gas transit risks and exceptions. Today the construction of the "South Stream " is being held in Russia, Bulgaria and Serbia. At the end of 2015 the first gasgas will be delivered first on the "South Stream". A full capacity is to be in 2018.