"If Nord Stream 2 is built, the Ukrainian route will cease to exist. The European Union would sacrifice existing transport capacities of 151 billion cubic meters (bcm) in favor of new ones – 55 bcm just to "cover future demand growth," the press service quoted Kobolev as saying.
As UNIAN reported earlier, North Stream 2 project involves the construction of two offshore gas pipelines with a total capacity of 55 bcm annually delivered from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea.
Read alsoPoroshenko: Nord Stream 2 threatens EU’s, Ukraine’s energy securityAt the beginning of September 2015, Gazprom, Shell, OMV, E.On. signed a Shareholders Agreement to construct the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline for boosting gas supplies to the European Union. The project is to be implemented by the New European Pipeline AG joint venture.
