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There are no official events due to the coronavirus, the source said.
The construction of the Balkan Stream gas pipeline has been de facto completed and the Bulgarian section of the pipeline is connected to the pipeline in Serbia. This was reported to TASS by an informed source involved in the construction of the gas pipeline.
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“Balkan Stream has been completed, it is connected to a gas pipeline in Serbia, there are no official events related to the completion of the gas pipeline due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the ceremony is likely to take place later,” the source said.
In October, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov announced that construction of the Balkan Stream gas pipeline in the country was almost complete. He stressed that “with the implementation of the Balkan Stream project, Bulgaria will become a strategic regional gas distribution center and guarantee the diversification of gas supply.”
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Balkan Stream is actually a continuation of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline through Bulgaria. In official documents, it is called “the object of expansion of the gas transportation infrastructure of the company” Bulgartransgaz “in parallel with the main northern gas pipeline to the Bulgarian-Serbian border”. The name “Balkan Stream” for the pipeline was proposed by the prime minister. It was noted that the linear part of the pipeline should be completed in December.
“The Turkish current, which was launched on January 8, 2020, runs along the bottom of the Black Sea from Russia to the shores of Turkey. In addition, there is a land transit line to the border with neighboring countries, from where Gas is already exported to Greece, Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia. Subsequently, once the entire infrastructure is completed, the gas reaches Serbia and Hungary. The 930 km gas pipeline capacity is 31.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year.
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