UPI: BP ready to tie into Nord Stream

An artery extending from the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline will reach from Russia to British ports in a matter of years, a BP spokesman confirmed.

A report last weekend in The Daily Mail newspaper in London stated that BP was in "secret talks" with Russian energy company Gazprom to build a British extension to the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline.

Vladimir Buyanov, a spokesman for BP in Russia, told Voice of Russia that BP is working on the terms of an agreement with the Nord Stream pipeline consortium, controlled by Gazprom.

The twin Nord Stream pipeline runs from Russia's eastern ports through the Baltic Sea to Germany. Buyanov said the extension would eventually stretch to Norfolk on the British east coast, the Russian report stated.  MORE