Pipes to build Moscow's Nord Stream-2 are expected to start being supplied in December or January, in a sign the gas project is going ahead, Ivan Shabalov, owner of Pipe Innovation Technologies (PIT), told the Reuters Russia Investment Summit.
The plan, designed to double the capacity of the existing pipeline on the bed of the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany, has irked the European Union, which is trying to cut the bloc’s dependency on energy supplies from Moscow.
