Stock Photo - 05 November 2020, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lubmin: The double shut-off valves and the pig traps are installed between the pipe systems of the natural gas receiving station of the Nord Stream Baltic Sea pipeline. (Aerial photograph taken with a drone) The last connections between the pipe systems are still missing; these will only be connected after completion of the pipeline. Later, six and a half million cubic metres of natural gas per hour are to be processed here and delivered to downstream pipelines at the right pressure. Originally, the pipeline for natural gas from Russia was scheduled to come on stream at the end of 2019. Almost eight billion euros have already been invested in the pipeline. Currently, 150 of the 2,360-kilometre-long double strand of the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline are still missing. Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB. - Lubmin/Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania/Germany