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Bulgaria-Greece gas interconnector put into operation

Belgrade/Sofia, 1 October 2022

President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic attended the inauguration ceremony of the gas interconnector between Bulgaria and Greece, 182 kilometres long, to which Serbia will be connected.

The opening of the gas pipeline was also attended by President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev, Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister of Romania Nicolae Ciuca and President of North Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski.

Vucic congratulated Bulgaria and Greece on completing the construction of the interconnector and added that the construction of the interconnector between Serbia and Bulgaria has already begun.

He pointed out that the project will be completed within a year and that he hopes that next year at this time a similar ceremony will be held in Serbia.

Works on the construction of the new gas pipeline between Bulgaria and Greece were completed in mid-July, and today the first commercial deliveries begin.

The pipeline will transport gas from Azerbaijan via the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) and from other sources via the planned liquefied natural gas terminal in Alexandroupolis in northern Greece.

As previously announced, the gas pipeline is starting to operate with a capacity of three billion cubic meters of gas per year, with prospects for an increase to five billion.

At the beginning of this year, with the support of the EU, Serbia began the construction of a 109-kilometer gas interconnector with Bulgaria, from Nis to Dimitrovgrad, on its territory, and the works should be completed by September 2023.

With that gas pipeline, Serbia will be connected to the gas pipeline between Bulgaria and Greece, that is, it will be able to supply gas from Azerbaijan or from the LNG terminal (for liquefied natural gas) in Greece.