PRESS RELEASE
Transgaz and Bulgartransgaz signed on 6 April 2016 the contract with the Austrian company SC HABAU PPS Pipeline Systems SRL – the winner of the public procurement procedure, developed according to the Bulgarian legislation, with the subject:” Construction of a main gas pipeline DN 500 of the Danube Crossing (including the Danube Undercrossing) to interconnect the gas transmission systems of Romania and Bulgaria”
The contract signing ceremony was hosted by Bulgartransgaz EAD at the company’s headquarters in Sofia, in the presence of representatives of the two gas transmission operators in Romania and Bulgaria. The honorable Bulgarian Minister of Energy, Mrs. Temenuzhka Petkova, attended the event.
The main Danube undercrossing pipeline to interconnect the gas transmission systems in Bulgaria and Romania will be completed in 119 days since the contract with the Austrian company SC HABAU PPS Pipeline Systems SRL is signed and it will have a maximum bidirectional capacity of 1.5 bcm/y.
Transgaz and Bulgartransgaz took an important step in the process related to the completion of the interconnection of the neighboring gas transmission systems in Bulgaria and Romania.
The completion of the interconnection project Bulgaria-Romania is of outmost importance from the perspective of the security of gas supply in the region, generating the premises of the integration of the gas sources from the Southern Corridor in the markets from Central and Western Europe.
INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT