MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected reports on Monday that an agreement on the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline could be signed at the Eastern Economic Forum in early September.
"As far as I am aware, this information is false. Such a signing is not planned," Peskov told reporters.
In June, Gazprom announced plans to build two additional branches to the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Germany in a joint project with E.ON, Shell and OMV, with an estimated cost of 9.9 billion euro (over $11 billion at the current exchange rates).
The Nord Stream-2 project, which will be 86-percent the same as the Nord Stream route, could provide direct gas supplies of up to 55 billion cubic meters a year to European customers if implemented.
