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Serbia completes first phase of Turkish Stream construction
SERBIA
Serbia hopes to complete construction by mid-December.
SERBIA has completed the rst phase of the con- struction of its section of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline, eKapija reported.
Gazprom has determined the itinerary of the second line of the Turkish Stream pipeline will span Bulgaria and Serbia starting from 2020, then go through Hungary and Slovakia starting from 2021 and the second half of 2022, respectively.
Serbia started working on the construction of the section on its territory in April and has now completed the preparatory works for the pipeline construction. It hopes to complete the construc- tion of the whole pipeline by mid-December.
In March, Serbia’s Gastrans invited binding bids to book capacity for the transit of natural gas via the pipeline. e total volume of available annual capacity is 395.2 GWh a day at the border
with Bulgaria, 124.2 GWh per day at exit points in Serbia and 271.02 GWh a day at the connec- tion with Hungary.
e Serbian segment of the Gastrans pipe- line is expected to start operation as early as 2020, and reach its full capacity during 2022. e operator of the Gastrans pipeline in Serbia is Gastrans company, a joint venture between a subsidiary of Russian oil and gas major Gazprom and Srbijagas.
Last year, Gastrans received non-binding bids for the import of 9,139 GWh of natural gas via the link with Bulgaria and the transit of a total of 5,258 GWh per day of natural gas to Hungary.
In February, the Energy Community said that Gastrans should o er 30% of the natural gas it will receive through Turkish Stream on inde- pendent markets.
Gazprom revives internal pipe project
RUSSIA
The pipeline was originally designed to feed gas into the South Stream.
RUSSIA’S Gazprom reportedly plans to continue work on a shelved domestic pipeline project that had been designed to support exports to Europe via the Black Sea.
The 1,625.6-km Pochinki-Anapa pipeline constituted the eastern route of Russia’s planned Southern Corridor, intended to supply gas to Bulgaria and other countries in southern Europe via the future 63bn cubic metre per year South Stream. Moscow scrapped South Stream in 2014, following Russia’s annexation of Crimea. It was shortly replaced by the 31.5 bcm per year Turk- Stream, which ran to Turkey instead of Bulgaria.
Within a year of South Stream’s demise, Rus- sia axed the Southern Corridor project as well. At the time more than 500km of Pochinki-Anapa had been built, while the 472-km western route, Pisarevka-Anapa, had already been nished.
Citing tender documents for engineering surveys, however, Russia’s Interfax said Gazprom had opted to complete Pochinki-Anapa, repur- posing the pipeline for domestic supplies to the coastal Krasnodar region rather than exports. Russia’s Vedomosti quoted experts this week as estimating Southern Corridor’s total cost at RUB715bn ($22.4bn), based on 2012 prices.
Earlier, Gazprom had suggested it would dismantle pipes and compressor stations along Pochinki-Anapa and use the equipment at other projects instead. Many of the pipes that were ordered for the Southern Corridor but not installed were redirected to the Nord Stream 2 and connecting pipelines.
Pochinki-Anapa could still serve TurkStream in the future, should Gazprom decide to expand the pipeline’s capacity. TurkStream currently consists of two 15.75 bcm per year strings – one designed to serve the Turkish gas market and one intended to supply European customers. The Turkish string is nearing its completion, and Russia has plans to extend the European line through Bulgaria, Serbia and into Hungary.
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