The Romanian-Moldovan ghost pipeline never materialized
The Iasi-Ungheni-Chisinau gas pipeline, which the outgoing liberal government of Maia Sandu intended to use as an alternative to gas supplies from Russia, will not be built this year.
NOI.md reports this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Transgaz has changed the construction timeline. If the previously indicated date was the end of 2019, now we are talking about 2021.
The pipeline has become a long-term construction project. Back in 2013, the Romanian authorities solemnly reported on the beginning of its Romanian part, but it turned out that after the television filming, all materials were taken out and no work was carried out.
In 2014, the gas pipeline was “opened” with fanfare, but in August 2019, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova, Nicu Popescu, said that work on the construction of this gas pipeline was being carried out in seven sections simultaneously, and gas pipes would soon be delivered to construction sites.
Let us note that the new government of Moldova, in the days when transit through the territory of Ukraine was in question, considered as an alternative the supply of the same Russian gas, only through the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline, which, after the launch of the Turkish Stream, began to operate in reverse mode.
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