Nord Stream 2 will be operational in 2nd half of 2020 despite US sanctions setting project timing back – top German official

Nord Stream AG 3

US sanctions will have an impact on building the Russo-German Nord Stream 2 pipeline, but the flagship project will nevertheless be completed next year, according to a top-tier government official in Berlin.

The $11-billion pipeline, which extends from Russia to Germany across the bottom of the Baltic Sea, will be finished “in the second half of the next year,” Peter Beyer, the government’s Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation, told Deutschlandfunk radio station on Monday.

Continue reading https://on.rt.com/a7s4