At the end of summer, the commercial operation of the IGB gas pipeline begins

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At the end of the summer, at the beginning of autumn, the commercial operation of the Greek-Bulgarian gas pipeline IGB is expected to start. The construction site of the project was visited yesterday by the Minister of Energy K. Skrekas together with the Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov and the Minister of Energy of the neighboring country Alexander Nikolov. The construction of the pipeline is expected to be completed in late spring, early summer.

The Greek-Bulgarian pipeline with a length of 182 km, as it is known, is going to connect Komotini with Stara Zagora and will be the second point of interconnection of the gas systems of Greece and Bulgaria beyond the existing station in Sidirokastro.

With a capacity of 5 billion cubic meters, the IGB will initially operate carrying an annual amount of gas of 3 billion cubic meters.

The IGB, as it is planned to connect to the TAP pipeline, in combination with the interconnection pipelines of Bulgaria, Romania and Bulgaria and Serbia, is expected to give flesh and blood to the so-called vertical corridor.

That is, it will connect the countries of the central Balkans with the Caspian gas and the TAP pipeline. At the same time, it will provide access to liquefied natural gas LNG, either through the Revythousa station or through the new terminal of Alexandroupolis, in the specific countries that are currently supplied exclusively by natural gas through pipelines.

It is recalled that the study, construction and operation of the Project has been undertaken by the Company ICGB AD, based in Bulgaria and shareholders in the Bulgarian State Company Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) (50%) and IGI Poseidon (50%), in which the DEPA and Edison. The project has a budget of 220m euros.