Natural gas in Romania

The gas storage facility under Lake Tuz in Central Anatolia will become fully operational by 2019, according to sources from the Energy Ministry. 

Some 65 percent of the construction activities have already been completed and the first part of the project, which is composed of six storage units, will be opened by 2017, according to officials. 

The gas interconnector pipeline between Romania and Bulgaria's towns of Giurgiu and Ruse, respectively, is expected to be completed by the end of this year, said on Tuesday the CEO of Bulgarian company Bulgartransgaz, Kiril Temelkov.

A total of 4.88 billion cubic meters of gas was injected in European underground gas depots in the first three weeks of September, according to data of the Association of the European operators of underground gas storages (GSE).