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Our gas transmission system is modernized and reversible, with the best compressors, so that we can transport gas in all directions. We have invested BGN 360 million in compressors, so we not only diversify, but also enable Bulgarian companies and consumers to receive gas and transport it at the lowest price. This was stated by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, who inspected the “Rasovo” compressor station, currently under construction. Together with the other compressor station, Nova Provadia, the two compressor stations will serve to increase pressure along the Balkan Stream route.
The three compressors manufactured by the American company Solar Turbines have already been installed at Rasovo CS. It is planned to install in CS “Nova Provadia” another four units of the same type of latest generation compressors. The units will be equipped with low emission combustion chambers and will comply with all the requirements of environmental legislation.
At present, construction and installation works on the future CS “Rasovo” site continue to be carried out and are expected to be completed in December. In addition to the three gas turbine compressor units, an administrative building, production and service buildings will also be located on the site. The total value of the contract for the design, supply and construction of the two compressor stations amounts to about 180 million euros.
The compressor stations are key to the execution of the project “Expansion of the gas transportation infrastructure from the Bulgarian-Turkish border to the Bulgarian-Serbian border”. The linear phase of the project is also in an advanced construction phase. In itself, it is a real engineering challenge given the difficult geology of the places and the route, which crosses many natural obstacles such as rivers, canals, ravines, roads, railways. lines and other technical infrastructure. The execution of the project did not stop even during the state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, working in compliance with the anti-epidemic measures. In addition, serious efforts are being made to preserve cultural heritage and large-scale archaeological campaigns do not allow the destruction of archaeological values during the construction of the pipeline. In the current year and last year, a total of 87 sites have been surveyed along the Balkan Stream route, the most important results being from excavations near the towns of Vladinya and Letnitsa. The most interesting finds from the Balkan Stream excavations are expected to be featured in a large exhibition at the National Archaeological Institute with a museum from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The total amount of archaeological excavation expenses amounts to over BGN 18 million.
Both the gas pipeline and its facilities, after commissioning, will form part of the gas transportation system of the Republic of Bulgaria. The implementation of the project is essential for the establishment of our country as a leading commercial distribution center in the region and the European Union as a whole.
The construction of Balkan Stream is aimed at increasing the security of natural gas supply from various sources, increasing competition and transparency in the natural gas market, which in turn will have a positive effect on natural gas consumers. As a key project for market integration, Balkan Stream will help ensure the supply of natural gas to the country and the region, while contributing to the creation of real conditions for the diversification of sources and routes and the possibility of transporting additional quantities of gas. natural gas to and through Bulgaria.
Just 5 months ago, to get acquainted with the progress in the construction of the gas transportation infrastructure expansion from the Turkish-Bulgarian border to the Bulgarian-Serbian border, Serbian President Alexander Vucic visited Bulgaria at the invitation of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov . The two leaders inspected the extension of the Bulgarian gas pipeline in the Letnitsa region by helicopter and then visited Veliko Tarnovo.
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