Gazprom to pay 509 billion rubles for network expansion

Gazprom will pay 509.586 billion rubles to expand the network of the Southern Corridor and provide the South Stream with the needed volumes of gas, the company reports.

The project will be realized before 2017. Its streamline will be 2,500km long.

82.526 billion rubles will be spent in 2013: 58.731 billion rubles on the streamline and 23,365 billion rubles on compression stations.

Adapted from Vestnik Kavkaza