OPAL Pipeline To Connect To Baltic Sea

LUBMIN, GERMANY - APRIL 08: A worker, at the request of the photographer, walks through a section of the NEL pipeline near its entrance at the point where the it will be joined to the Nord Stream pipeline on April 8, 2010 near Lubmin, Germany. The OPAL and NEL pipelines will carry natural gas from Russia arriving through the Nord Stream pipeline from the Baltic Sea across Germany and to other countries in Europe. The Nord Stream project delivers Russian natural gas directly to western Europe and avoids countries in between, such as Poland and Ukraine. (Photo Illustration by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)