OAO Gazprom, Russia’s natural-gas export monopoly, intends to build a pipeline to Croatia and a power plant in the country to maintain its market for the fuel.
The gas link, to be developed with local partner Plinacro d.o.o., will branch off from Russia’s planned South Stream pipeline, Gazprom Deputy Chief Executive Officer Alexander Medvedev said today in Zagreb, the Balkan country’s capital.