Polish oil and gas company PGNIG, which has received the right to participate in the certification of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline, will not be able to impose a veto for the final decision. This was reported by TASS in the Federal Network Agency Germany (BNetza).
Restrictions will affect the PGNIG subsidiary – PST GmbH, also attracted to the certification process. “The parties can participate in the administrative process, especially they have the right to the presentation of their point of view,” said the representative of the department FIT Wulf.
Thus, the German authorities have deprived the possibilities of PGNIG, who has been considered the enemy of the Russian company in recent years, seriously harm the gas pipeline. In the Polish oil and gas concern, they do not hide that they will try to prevent Gazprom to strengthen its privileged position on the European gas market.
On September 10, the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, announced the end of the construction of the “Northern Flow-2”. Two threads of the gas pipeline 1234 kilometer long will be held from Russia to Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The capacity of the gas pipeline is 55 billion cubic meters per year.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made that the gas pipeline certification will be completed only at the beginning of 2022. At the same time, in Gazprom, they expect to launch “Northern Stream-2” until the end of 2021.