TIKHVIN, RUSSIAN FEDERATION: A special lifting crane installs a segment of the North European Gas pipeline (NEGP) near the town of Tikhvin in the Leningrad region, 04 February 2006. Russia plans to finish building the first section of a pipeline to take natural gas direct to Europe across the Baltic Sea floor in June, Ria-novosti news agency reported. Construction under the 4.7-billion euro project, which is managed by Russian energy giant Gazprom, began last year. The pipeline, which is to include two parallel legs measuring 750 miles each, will connect the Baltic seashore near the Russian city of Vyborg with the Greifswald region on the German coast. AFP PHOTO / SERGEY KULIKOV (Photo credit should read SERGEY KULIKOV/AFP/Getty Images)

TIKHVIN, RUSSIAN FEDERATION: A special lifting crane installs a segment of the North European Gas pipeline (NEGP) near the town of Tikhvin in the Leningrad region, 04 February 2006. Russia plans to finish building the first section of a pipeline to take natural gas direct to Europe across the Baltic Sea floor in June, Ria-novosti news agency reported. Construction under the 4.7-billion euro project, which is managed by Russian energy giant Gazprom, began last year. The pipeline, which is to include two parallel legs measuring 750 miles each, will connect the Baltic seashore near the Russian city of Vyborg with the Greifswald region on the German coast. AFP PHOTO / SERGEY KULIKOV (Photo credit should read SERGEY KULIKOV/AFP/Getty Images)