(Bloomberg, Moscow, 4 April 2012) South Stream Transport AG, an OAO Gazprom-led venture planning to build a natural-gas pipeline under the Black Sea, hired financial advisers for the project.The funding of the marine link will include equity and debt from international lenders, including banks and export credit agencies. The partners plan to build a 10 billion-euro ($13.1 billion) offshore pipeline with a capacity of 63 billion cubic meters a year from the Russian Black Sea Coast to Bulgaria, where the route will continue onshore to central and southern Europe.
