Vice-Prime Minister Alexander Novak called the term of readiness of the Russian export gas pipeline “Northern Stream-2” to launch, his words leads TASS.
“” Northern Stream – 2 “is completed. Now there are commissioning and filling the pipe with the necessary technological amount of gas. And I believe that it is for work in the coming days, in order to run it, will be ready,” said Novak .
According to him, the further operation of the pipeline and the timing of its real launch will depend on the European regulator, which conducts the certification of “Northern Flow-2”. Earlier, the Russian side said that, according to its expectations, the process may take several months.
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