Gazprom’s $12 billion Russia-Germany gas pipeline will be completed on schedule, at the end this year

Gazprom’s $12 billion Russia-Germany gas pipeline will be completed on schedule, at the end this year, the operators told reporters a foreign press tour Wednesday of the landing area, in Lubmin. As “hundreds of workers with heavy construction equipment [worked] at the pipeline’s sandy landing site,” project spokesman Jens Mueller told AFP: “The main installations have been completed, the shut-off valves have been installed, so we can assume that the project will be completed by the end of 2019.” Lubmin is in eastern Germany’s Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, the home district of Chancellor Angela Merkel.