Amid antitrust concerns from Poland, a new financing model for the expansion of a gas pipeline to Europe could emerge by year’s end, Russia’s Gazprom said. Russian natural gas company Gazprom signed shareholder agreements on the development of the second phase of the twin Nord Stream pipeline system last year with its counterparts at German energy companies BASF and E.ON, as well as those from French company ENGIE, Austria’s OMV and Royal Dutch Shell. In early August, the Polish antitrust authority, known by its acronym UOKiK, ruled the project consortium would restrict competition in the Polish energy market. In response, the parties to the project pulled their application to form a company […]