"The project company (Nord Stream 2 AG -

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In mid-October, the first line of the pipeline was filled with technical gas, the volume of which amounted to about 177 million cubic meters.

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Earlier, the chairman of the board of directors of Gazprom, Viktor Zubkov, said that the company could supply 55 billion cubic meters of gas a year to Europe via the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.