The head of the Austrian gas company has announced the end of "Ukrainian monopoly"
The launch of "Nord stream - 2" will end the "Ukrainian monopoly" in the flow of gas transit, said the head of the Austrian concern OMV involved in the implementation of the Nord Stream project, 2, Rainer Seele in the interview to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
After running the pipeline the countries of Eastern Europe will lose the opportunity to set too high prices for transit, which was a positive moment from a position of rivalry, said Zele.
However, in his vision, to ignore the Ukraine, As the EU After the rejection of nuclear power and coal will require more " blue fuel ".
for this reason, energy organizations, including OMV, will have expressed interest in using all available transit routes, He added.
As stated by Seele, the issue of energy between Europe and the capital of Russia there is a clear balance: one needs gas and the money from the sale.
He also recalled that the Russian Federation has for 50 years remained a reliable supplier of " blue fuel ".
The project of the pipeline "Nord stream - 2" involves the construction of 2 lines of the pipeline off the coast of Russia through the Baltic sea to Germany. The total capacity of "Nord stream - 2" is 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year. It is expected that the Project will be implemented in the current year.
Against the "Nord stream - 2" actively supports Kiev, which fears to lose the income from the transit of Russian natural gas. In addition, negative towards the project targets and several European countries, including Poland, Latvia and Lithuania and also the USA, promoting the EU's own liquefied natural gas.
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