ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY

Greece and Bulgaria agree to work on updated schedule of the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria


Greece and Bulgaria have agreed to work on the updated schedule of the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB), which envisages transportation of Azerbaijani gas, the Bulgarian Energy Ministry  reports.

The remarks were made during a meeting between Bulgaria’s Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova and the Greek Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change Giorgos Stathakis.

During the meeting, the ministers discussed the necessary follow-up to the project’s implementation.

The two sides expressed commitment to work on an updated schedule for the project so that the interconnector could be put into operation in 2020 in synergy with the launch of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), reads the message.

IGB is a gas pipeline, which will allow Bulgaria to receive Azerbaijani gas, in particular, the gas produced from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz 2 gas and condensate field. IGB is expected to be connected to TAP via which gas from the Shah Deniz field will be delivered to the European markets.

The initial capacity of IGB will be 3 billion cubic meters of gas.

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