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Also, the Russian energy giant is set to allocate $268 million for TurkStream.
Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom in 2019 plans to spend approximately $806 million on the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
Gazprom's investment program for the current year totals $20 billion, according to the company report, the Gordon news outlet wrote on January 24.
In particular, the Russian energy giant plans to allocate $268 million for the TurkStream gas pipeline and $891 million for the design, construction, and operation of a gas pipeline in Serbia.
Moreover, $2.235 billion is earmarked for the Power of Siberia pipeline, the report said.
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Nord Stream 2 is the second gas pipeline, which is supposed to connect Russia with Germany along the Baltic Sea bottom. The line will be 1,220 km long with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The cost of the project is EUR 9.5 billion. Its financing is shared in half by Gazprom and five European companies. The construction of the gas pipeline is to have been completed by the end of 2019.
Germany, Finland, and Sweden allowed laying the pipeline through their territory, while Denmark objected. Thus, the project operator proposed to lay the pipe bypassing Denmark.
The governments of Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia consider Nord Stream 2 a project, which is imposing a threat to Europe's energy security.