Hungary, Serbia and Bulgaria supported Gazprom’s new project
Gas supplies to Europe must be diversified, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, Peter Szijjártó, after a meeting and negotiations with the Minister of Energy and Energy of Serbia, Aleksandar Antic, and the Minister of Energy of Bulgaria, Temenuzhka Petkova. A message about this was published on the official website of the Hungarian government.
“Guaranteeing a reliable energy supply is one of the biggest challenges facing Central Europe and for this reason natural gas supply routes must be diversified, which is also crucial for Hungary,” he said.
Peter Szijjártó said that natural gas is currently not supplied to Central Europe from the south. Improving energy security in this direction is an obvious solution.
According to the minister, one of the possible scenarios for achieving this is the transportation of natural gas to Hungary through Bulgaria and Serbia, a prerequisite for which is the construction of the second stage of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline by Gazprom. The first Turkish Stream pipeline will meet Turkey's domestic consumption needs, while the second pipeline will provide the opportunity to obtain enough gas to supply Central Europe, he explained.
According to Gazprom, the company will complete construction of a second pipeline to Bulgaria by 2019, after which Bulgaria should develop its domestic network by building 400 kilometers of new pipeline and installing gas compressors, the minister said. This process will be completed by the end of 2022, by which time the Serbian side will also complete the development of its own gas pipeline network.
“This means that domestic network development projects in Serbia and Bulgaria and the development of Hungarian infrastructure will make it possible to supply natural gas to Central Europe, including Hungary, from the south, starting in 2022,” Mr. Szijjártó added.
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