Gascade Receives Permit For Laying EUGAL Gas Pipeline As Part Of Nord Stream 2 Project

Gas transportation company Gascade Gastransport, co-owned by Russia's Gazprom and German BASF/Wintershall, has received all the permits for laying the EUGAL gas pipeline that will transit natural gas supplied as part of the Nord Stream 2 project, Gascade said in a statement on Thursday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 25th October, 2018) Gas transportation company Gascade Gastransport, co-owned by Russia's Gazprom and German BASF/Wintershall, has received all the permits for laying the EUGAL gas pipeline that will transit natural gas supplied as part of the Nord Stream 2 project, Gascade said in a statement on Thursday.

"Work to construct the European Gas Pipeline Link (EUGAL) in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has been given the go-ahead. The Stralsund Mining Authority's decision brings together all the individual approvals needed to build the EUGAL in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania," the statement read.

"After Brandenburg and Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is the third Federal state to give all the necessary approvals for the EUGAL-pipeline," the statement added.

The Nord Stream 2 project envisages the construction of two gas pipelines that will run from Russia, through the Baltic Sea and to a hub in Germany bypassing Ukraine. The project is a joint venture of the Russian Gazprom energy giant with French Engie, Austrian OMV AG, UK-Dutch Royal Dutch Shell, and German Uniper and Wintershall.