site.btaEuropean Commission Vice-President in Charge of Energy Union Sefcovic Thanks Bulgaria for Work on Gas Interconnector with Greece

European Commission Vice-President in Charge of Energy Union Sefcovic Thanks Bulgaria
for Work on Gas Interconnector with Greece

Baku/Sofia, February 23 (BTA) - European Commission Vice-President in charge of Energy Union Maros Sevcovic thanked Bulgaria for the huge work is has done on the construction of the gas interconnector with Greece, the Bulgarian Energy Ministry said on Thursday.

Bulgaria also received recognition for the progress achieved in the strategic infrastructure project in the conclusive declaration of the third ministerial meeting of the Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council held in Baku on Thursday.

In his address to the forum Bulgarian Energy Minister Nikolai Pavlov said that Bulgaria is an inseparable part of the development of the Southern Gas Corridor via the projects for interconnectors with Greece (IGB) and with Turkey (ITB). The two interconnectors, as well as those between Bulgaria and Romania and Bulgaria and Serbia, will ensure the access to the Southern Gas Corridor of other countries from the region and from Southeast and Southern Europe, Pavlov said.

The IGB project will make possible the supply to Bulgaria of the agreed 1 billion cu m gas annually from the Shah Deniz 2 field as of 2020.

The interconnector with Greece is also a key element in the implementation of the initiative of Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Hungary for the construction of a "vertical" gas corridor for supply of natural gas from north to south.