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Serbia, Hungary and Greece. Agreements with Slovenia and Austria still need to be finalized. Gazprom plans to build each of the South Stream links in 50-50 partnerships with national companies in each country covered by the pipeline. Therefore, Gazprom will shoulder roughly half of the costs.Gazprom earlier estimated the planned pipeline's throughput capacity at 31 billion cubic meters of gas a year; now the Russian giant says it is ready to boost the initial plan to 47 billion.
Of all of Gazprom's operational pipelines, South Stream could be remotely likened to the 390-km Blue Stream link to Turkey, with annual capacity of 16 billion cubic meters. The project costs totaled $3.3 billion.
If South Stream is eventually built, and so is Nord Stream, a planned gas pipeline from Russia's Vyborg to Germany's Greifswald across the Baltic Sea bottom, worth over 7.4 billion euros, the total capacity of Russian gas export pipelines, including
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