1. The following large scale projects, concerning the infrastructure intended to increase the reliability of the supply and transit of the Russian energy resources, have been implemented:
- The "Goluboy Potok" (Blue Stream) gas pipeline (16 billion of cubic meters of gas per year, 2005);
- the first stage of the Baltic pipeline system (65 million tons of oil per year, 2006);
- The gas pipeline (33 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year, 2007);
- the first phase of the "Sever" (North) oil pipeline (8.4 million tons of oil products per year, 2008).
2. The implementation of the new infrastructure projects, intended to diversify the export markets for the Russian energy resources has been launched:
- The "Severniy Potok" (Nord Stream) gas pipeline (55 billion cubic meters of gas per year);
In November 2011, the first gas pipeline of 1,224 km of Nord Stream became operational through the Baltic Sea and was hailed by the political and business leaders as a significant contribution to the energy security of Europe. The pipeline goes through the waters of Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. When they become fully operational at the end of 2012, the two lines of Nord Stream will have the ability to transport 55 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas per year to the EU for at least 50 years. The shareholders of Nord Stream comprise Gazprom, BASF/Wintershall, E.ON Ruhrgas, Nederlandse Gasunie and GDF SUEZ.
- "Unecia - Primorsk", a pipeline which will go around Belarus, with a projected capacity of 50 million tons, which will be managed by "Transneft".
In March, Vladimir Putin inaugurated the second segment of the oil pipeline system to the Baltic Sea (BTS), which was meant to diminish the dependency on Belarus and Ukraine, as transit countries towards Europe. The oil pipeline, with a pipeline of 1,000 ki
