“The construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline continues. To date, 1,739.4 km of the gas pipeline has been laid on the bottom of the Baltic Sea - about 71% of its total length, ”TASS reports.

Earlier, OMV head Rainer Seele said that the first gas through the Nord Stream - 2 gas pipeline would arrive by midnight on December 31, 2019.

Director of the Center for the Study of World Energy Markets at the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vyacheslav Kulagin, in an interview with FBA Economy Today, appreciated this statement by Seele.