Submarine pipelines

The Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) project will enter into service as of June 12, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak said on May 11.

The deep-water offshore construction of the first line of the TurkStream natural gas pipeline is now complete as the world's largest pipelaying vessel, the Pioneering Spirit, reached the Turkish shore off Kıyıköy in northwest Turkey on April 29.

Most of the permits for the construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline have been obtained and its commissioning is scheduled to take place by December 30, 2019.

This was announced by the counselor of Russian President Yuri Ushakov.

Bulgaria is creating a natural gas hub at its Black Sea coast.

The Bulgarian energy ministry says the state-owned company Bulgartransgaz signed a 1.2 million-euro ($1.5 million) contract Thursday with a Bulgarian-Swiss consortium for a feasibility study. The European Union has pledged to provide 920,000 euros ($1.13 million) for the project.

Bulgaria's gas transmission system operator Bulgartransgaz said it is planning to acquire 28 properties owned by South Stream Bulgaria, a 50/50 joint venture set up by Russia's Gazprom and state-owned Bulgarian Energy Holding.

The properties have a total estimated value of 13.2 million levs ($8.3 million/6.7 million euro), Bulgartransgaz said in a notice on Tuesday.

Some 50 percent of the offshore section for the TurkStream Offshore Gas Pipeline has been installed, the project company announced in a statement on March 6.

ICGB, the project company tasked with completing the construction of the Greece-Bulgaria gas interconnector, told BIRN that the firm  hopes the project will soon be back on track after two procurement procedures for the selection of an engineer-consultant and pipes delivery, were  stopped due to appeals.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic confirmed on Monday that construction of the Serbian Stream - a gas pipeline from Bulgaria to Serbia that will replace the South Stream - would begin soon.

She said the South Stream company, established for the project to build the gas pipeline of the same name, would be renamed accordingly.

Bulgaria would be interested in buying Israeli gas if the EastMed pipeline connecting Leviathan to Europe is built.

The Serbian prime minister said the South Stream company, established for the project to build the gas pipeline of the same name, would be renamed accordingly.

"Currently we are designing Nis-Dimitrovgrad (pipeline) and I believe we will begin to build it, too, soon," the Brnabic said on Monday in Belgrade.