Official: Gazprom plans to start pumping via N Stream-2 in 2019

MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- Russian gas giant Gazprom will start pumping gas via the two lines of pipeline Nord Stream-2 in late 2019, CEO of affiliate Gazprom Transgaz Saint-Petersburg Georgy Fokin told corporate magazine in an interview released on Friday.

“Gas filling of the two lines of the underwater pipeline Nord Stream-2 is envisaged already in late 2019,” Fokin said.

The building of the pipeline is scheduled to start in 2018.

The Nord Stream-2 project envisages construction of two lines of a gas pipeline with a capacity of up to 55 billion cubic meters of gas annually, running from the Russian shore to Germany under the Baltic Sea. Gazprom will hold 50% in the project, while E.ON, BASF, Royal Dutch Shell, and OMV will own 10% each, and Engie will get a 9% stake.

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