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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a $5 billion underwater pipeline that pumps natural gas from

Siberia to Germany. The pipeline, nearly 745 miles long, will stretch under the

Baltic Sea from the Russian port of Wyborg to Greifswald in northeastern Germany.

Russian energy giant Gazprom will ink the deal for the North European Gas

Pipeline with German companies BASF,

E.on and Wintershall.

Sub Returned to Royal Navy

A yellow submarine reeled in by island fishermen more than five months ago has been collected by the Royal Navy - along with a specially-bottled case of whisky to mark the occasion. HMS Blythe arrived at

Islay off the west coast of Scotland to retrieve its remotely-operated vehicle (ROV). The 10 ft. (3 m)-long craft, which weighs 0.84 tons (850kg) and is used to detect mines, had become a major tourist attraction on the island. To commemorate the event, a local distillery has produced 12,000 bottles of Yellow Submarine whisky and presented a case to the captain of the minesweeper. The unmanned submarine was found by John Baker when he was fish- ing for lobsters in May, floating about three miles from the Mull of Oa. The vessel was kept on display in the garden of his broth- er-in-law Harold Hastie, who helped him bring it to dry land.

Subsea Contract Awarded

Aker Kvaerner Subsea won a $33.8 mil- lion contract for two subsea pump stations for use at the King field in the Gulf of

Mexico. The installation will set a new world record by applying this technology in deep water and more than 29 km from the platform. The pump station system will be manufactured at Aker Kvaerner Subsea's facility in Tranby, Norway. news

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