French energy group GDF Suez (Gaz de France Suez) has proposed to buy minority package in the company - operator pipeline Nord Stream (Nord Stream), which would connect Russia and Germany on the bottom of the Baltic Sea.On Monday the delegation held a working visit OAO Gazprom , headed by chairman Alexei Miller in France. During the visit, had meetings with Miller’s general manager GDF Suez G rard Mestralle, vice-president - the first deputy general director Jean-Francois Sirelli and president of the holding company Total Christophe de Marzheri. The meeting was told that GDF Suez attaches great importance to the draft Nord Stream , is interested in its successful implementation, and expressed interest in principle in joining the project as a minority partner , - said the report Gazprom . Now belongs to Nord Stream four shareholders: Gazprom , the German Wintershall and E. ON Ruhrgas and Dutch Gasunie. Gasunie signed with Gazprom memorandum of joining the Nord Stream in 2006, and closed the deal this year alone. Nord Stream built in 2005, is scheduled to start in 2011 but the project participants has not yet begun to build underwater part of the pipeline. One of the reasons for the delay is the position of several European nations, in particular, Sweden and Estonia. They see in the pipeline threatens the environmental security of the Baltic Sea. The fact is that the Nord Stream must be close to the burial sites of chemical waste from the Second World War. Gazprom assures that the ecology of the Baltic Sea pipeline will not hurt. The project must be constructed in two parallel threads on the 1200 km pipeline total throughput capacity of 55 billion cubic meters. meters of gas a year, the first to earn in 2011, the second - in 2013, estimates of construction - 7.4 billion euros. According to the scheme, shareholders fund 30% estimate, 70% - borrowed money. Now the charter capital of Nord Stream is about 630 million euros, ie about 8.5% of the total smety.Dlya Gazprom building of the underwater gas pipeline is especially important because through it the Russian monopoly would be able to supply gas to Western Europe without intermediaries. For the same reason, Gazprom negotiates and the construction of South Flow on the Black Sea. Gazprom is proposed GdF Suez participate in the project. Overall, the share in the Nord Stream company is interesting because of pipeline will be gas for its customers in France and the Benelux countries. The annual supply of Nord Stream for GdF Suez should draw up a 2.5 billion cubic meters. m since the start of first (now delivered 10 billion cubic meters. m).
