WASHINGTON, June 27. /TASS/. Wintershall's Executive Board member Thilo Wieland believes that the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline will be built in compliance with the schedule and Denmark will sooner of later grant the required permit.
"I truly believe that the project will come," he told TASS on the sidelines of the World Gas Conference in Washington.
He stressed that most of the permits have already been obtained.
"At the end of the day Denmark cannot block the project it can delay the project," he said.
"As of now I expect that the project will come in time," he said.
Earlier, Danish Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen said that his country could pass a law that would ultimately allow the country to block or postpone the implementation of the Nord Stream-2 project on legal grounds. He made this statement speaking at a press conference he held jointly with Ukraine’s Prime Minister Vladimir Groisman.
Denmark is the last country that has not issued a permit for the laying of the gas pipeline in its exclusive economic zone. Appropriate permits have already been given by Germany, Russia, Finland and Sweden.
The Nord Stream-2 project is an expansion of the existing Nord Stream main gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany. The pipeline is set to run from the Russian coast along the Baltic Sea bed to the German shore. It will bypass the transit states - Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and other Eastern European and Baltic countries. The gas pipeline will pass through the exclusive economic zones and territorial waters of five states - Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. The pipeline’s length will be more than 1,200 km, throughput capacity - 55 bln cubic meters of gas per year. The pipeline is expected to come into service at the end of 2019.