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Romania, Bulgaria In Talks To Link Gas Pipelines

Romania's state-owned gas pipeline operator Transgaz Medias and Bulgarian state-owned gas pipeline operator Bulgargaz are in talks on an inter-grid connection for the pipelines in the two neighboring countries, Focus News reported.
Romania, Bulgaria In Talks To Link Gas Pipelines
08 iun. 2008, 15:17, English

The connection takes into account two options, the longest of which has a 20-kilometer length. The other option considered is a link crossing the border at Ruse-Giurgiu.

Bulgargaz thus joins the plan of Hungary’s MOL to connect gas pipeline systems across the region. Talks and negotiations are also underway with Austria’s OMV Gas, Bosnia-Herzegovina’s BH-Gas, Slovenia’s Geoplin Plinovodi, Croatia’s Plinacro and Serbia’s Srbijagaz.

Last year, MOL asked several companies in central and southeastern Europe to unite the gas transmission system firms of the region from Austria to Romania into a holding, dubbed New Europe Transmission System, or NETS, Co.

MOL and Transgaz have nearly completed the Arad-Szeged pipeline connection on Romania’s western border with Hungary.

Transgaz operates 11,000 kilometers of pipelines and has about 4,700 employees. It is also part of the group led by Austria’s OMV, which is interested in investing in the Nabucco pipeline project, aiming to supply natural gas from the Caspian Sea to Central Europe via Turkey and Romania, bypassing Russia.