Russian energy company Gazprom during an investment forum in St. Petersburg has moved to strengthen its global hand with a new deck of proposals. Gazprom this week already signed memoranda with its partners in the twin Nord Stream pipeline to Germany to potentially add two new lines to the route. The first leg of Nord Stream went into service in 2011. A year later, British energy company BP said it was considering linking the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline to British ports. Nord Stream runs through the Black Sea to Germany and is among Gazprom’s routes that avoids geopolitically sensitive territory in Ukraine. Russia meets about 20 percent of the European demand for natural gas, though more than half of those reserves […]