Russian President Vladimir Putin called a possible period of filling the second thread of the North Stream-2 gas pipeline gas during the speech at the plenary session as part of the XVIII Annual Meeting of the Valdai Club, the correspondent “Renta”.
“If tomorrow, the German regulator will give delivery permissions, the day after tomorrow the delivery will begin, 17.5 billion cubic meters. By the end of this year – in the middle, at the end of December – technological work will be completed on filling the second gas pipe” Northern Flow-2 “. “,” he explained.
The total supply will be 55 billion cubic meters of gas, Putin said. He called him “decent” given the fact that, according to estimates, the European market deficit will be 70 billion cubic meters. “As soon as the second tube is filled and as soon as the permission of the German regulator is received, the next day we will start delivery,” the president concluded.
Earlier, Vladimir Putin appreciated the interest of Europe in the Nord-2 gas pipeline. According to him, the gas pipeline is not only in the interests of Gazprom, but also “of our partners, and above all, of course, European.”