The owners of the Northern Flow-2 could be European partners of the gas pipeline. In this case, the project would correspond to the Gas Directive of the European Union (EU), which would allow to circumvent restrictions for the pipeline. This method found Analyst Daniel Chizhevsky, writes RIA Novosti.
As Chizhevsky, the “Polish Radio” ether, the owner of the Northern Flood-2 can be a conglomerate of European-Union companies participating in the project, in particular, Royal Dutch Shell, Omv, Engie, Uniper and Wintershall, which would give ” Some field for maneuver. “
At the same time, the analyst called such a script “extreme option.” According to him, Gazprom expects that the last instance in the person of the Constitutional Court of Germany in Karlsrue to agree to bring gas pipeline from under the jurisdiction of European-Union legislation. At the same time, Chizhevsky recalled that the opponents of the Northern Flow-2 were hardly able to prevent his discovery.
On September 10, the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, announced the end of the construction of the “Northern Flow-2”. The capacity of the gas pipeline will be 55 billion cubic meters per year. Two threads of the object of a 1234 kilometer long will be held from Russia to Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Before commissioning, the gas pipeline will have to be certified. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made that the procedure will take several months and will end in early 2022. On October 4, the first thread of the North Stream-2 gas pipeline began to fill in gas.