Macquarie's European Infrastructure Fund 4 (MEIF4) is working with Macquarie Capital and UBS on the divestiture, the people said.
OGE was MEIF4's first investment, which was followed by acquisitions of gas grids in the Czech Republic and Italy, European wind farms and broadcasting towers as well as hydro power plants and utilities.
"This project is of great importance for the security of supply of the European gas market, it is therefore Europe's responsibility to decide," Seele told Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung.
"We have had a deep transatlantic friendship with the USA for decades. And friends shouldn't threaten each other," he said in an interview published on Saturday.
India, a signatory to Paris Climate accord, will also launch a Hydrogen Energy Mission in the next fiscal year to March 2022 for generating hydrogen from green power sources.
Gas Transport System Operator will be set up for facilitation and coordination of booking of common carrier capacity in all-natural gas pipelines on a non-discriminatory open access basis.
The consortium will probably be able to say at the end of January or in early February when work will resume, the spokesman said.
The construction of a 2.6-km long portion of the pipeline in Germany's shallow waters was resumed and finished last month with the help of the Fortuna.
On that date, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned investors in Russia's Nord Stream 2 and Turkstream pipelines they could face sanctions under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 2017.
K-Electric had submitted an application for the same on 18 May 2020, so as to ensure the pipeline would be built in time for the commissioning of the first unit of BQPS-III.
Pakistan and Russia are expected to finalize an agreement to start work on the over $2 billion North-South Gas Pipeline Project (NSGPP) in the first quarter of 2021 calendar year.
