Romania’s natural gas transmission company, Transgaz, has signed a work commencement order with a Turkish construction company for the execution of the Tuzla-Podisor gas pipeline, a EUR 500 million project aimed to bring natural gas from offshore Black Sea perimeters to the BRUA corridor – BRUA is a project for a pipeline linking the gas transmission systems of Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria.
The Tuzla-Podisor gas pipeline is also necessary for the transportation of the 15 billion cubic meters of natural gas that would come to Romania from the Caspian Sea area, via LNG terminals in Turkey and Greece, Transgaz director general Ion Sterian points out. It is important that the gas infrastructure is completed by the time the exploitation of natural gas from the Neptune Deep offshore block in the Black Sea begins, Sterian added.
The works commencement order comes three months after Transgaz signed on March 16 the capacity booking contract with OMV Petrom and Romgaz for the entry/exit point of Tuzla, where the natural gas from the Black Sea (Neptun Deep) will enter the national transport system – NTS.
Source: universul.net
