KASSEL (Sputnik) – Wintershall is waiting for a green light from the Baltic states to lay pipes for the North Stream 2 in 2017, board member Ties Tiessen said Thursday.
"We are preparing the necessary documents. We expect to receive permission from the countries in 2017," Tiessen told reporters.
Nord Stream 2 is a joint venture of Russia’s Gazprom and Austria’s energy group OMV aiming to deliver 55 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas a year to Europe across the Baltic Sea. The project plans to use the original Nord Stream pipeline for 86 percent of the route before branching off.
Gazprom has a 50-percent share in the gas pipeline project. OMV’s share is 10 percent, with the rest belonging to Germany’s BASF, France’s Engie, Denmark’s Shell, and Uniper, a spin-off of the German energy supplier E.ON.
