European regulators may be standing in the way of their own regional energy security with their stance against a gas pipeline, Russia’s Gazprom said. Viktor Zubkov , the chairman of the board at Russian gas giant Gazprom, said European regulators were needlessly standing in the way of access to the OPAL gas pipeline. “Its capacities had been groundlessly blocked for several years,” he was quoted as saying by Russian news agency Tass. “The relevance of the decision is demonstrated by the fact that already at the beginning of this year Nord Stream was utilized to the greatest possible extent, though previously experts said a pipeline via the Baltics was not needed.” Access to OPAL is necessary if the Russian natural gas company is to […]