Worker stand between pipes with a concrete cover for the Nord Stream pipeline at a storage facility in Mukran on the Baltic sea island of Ruegen April 8, 2010. Nord Stream will have two pipelines, each with a capacity of 27.5 billion cubic meters a year, on the Baltic Sea floor stretching from Russia?s Vyborg near the Finnish border to Greifswald on Germany?s coast. The 1,220 km-long (758-mile) Nord Stream pipeline will eventually pump 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year to Western Europe, bypassing traditional transit nations. The first pipeline is planned to be completed in 2011. REUTERS/Christian Charisius (GERMANY - Tags: ENERGY)