OMV: 1st gas via South stream " will come to Austria at the end of 2016

1st gas via South stream " will come to Austria at the end of 2016, said the official authorized Austrian oil and gas organizations OMV Robert Lehner.
It is expected, that on Tuesday during the visit of the President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin to Austria Gazprom and OMV signed a joint stock Treaty defining the principles of a joint venture for the project, ITAR-TASS reported." It is planned that by the end of 2016 - the beginning of 2017 1st gas comes in Baumgarten (Austrian gas distribution station) ", - he said. Lehner reminded that the length of the Austrian section of South stream " is about 50 km, the pipeline's throughput capacity up to 32 billion cubic meters of gas per year. On the First day of the week Austrian authorities said he had expressed interest in the project of gas pipeline " South stream " was performed. Remember, within the governments of Serbia and Bulgaria broke open debate around the " South stream ". Under pressure from the West, and among them the notorious Senator John McCain, in Sofia and Belgrade said it was about " freezing " of the project, but later other members of the government disputed the statements colleagues. on may 27, the winner of the tender for the construction of the gas pipeline " South stream " in Bulgaria was declared " Stroytransgaz cartel ", comprised of Russian Company " Stroytransgaz ", controlled by the structures of the Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko. Stroytransgaz is one of the organizations, which came Under the sentence in connection with the situation in Ukraine. The head of the opposition party Citizens for European development of Bulgaria Boyko Borisov in case of a victory on elections to the Parliament promised to sever the contract with the company " Stroytransgaz ". on may 28, the head of the EC Jose Manuel Barroso has warned the Prime Minister of Bulgaria Plamen Oresharski that the European Commission will react to violations of the European rules at operation of gas pipeline " South stream ". However, on the next day it was announced that Greece has made the offer to Gazprom to build on its territory branch of the " South stream ". Russian permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said that the shares, which the European Union is taking on the South stream ", can be regarded as a " creeping transition to economic sanctions against Russia."


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