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NOTE To eliminate some confusion, we specify that Transgaz is the national gas company and Romgaz is a gas producer.
Ion Sterian also criticized the statements of Julian Bowden, an expert at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), saying that he does not know the reality on the ground, in Central and Eastern Europe.
All these statements were made during a conference attended by the director of Transgaz, the director of Romgaz, the director of OMV Petrom, the director of FGSZ and the Oxford expert.
The BRUA pipeline, phase I, was completed on Sunday, but the festive moment will be overshadowed by the fact that the exact gases that should have been transported are missing. Hence the complaints from Ion Sterian.
It attracted the attention of everyone present at the conference except Christina Verchere, CEO of OMV Petrom, who praised Transgaz for completing the project. “BRUA is a great success for Transgaz, it is essential that the gas pipeline can be completed, essential for Romania’s energy security. We think first of exports, but also of imports, so that the market is supplied at the best level.Christina Verchere said.
Ion Sterian, to his Hungarian counterpart: Now that we are after national day, we will celebrate together
BRUA is one of the few major projects in Romania completed in 30 years, but it depends on other states or gas producers in Romania to be fully useful. BRUA must be part of a so-called vertical corridor, linking the natural gas transmission systems in Bulgaria-Greece with those in Hungary, of which the countries involved no longer speak.
Ion Sterian began his speech with references to his Hungarian counterpart, Szabolcs Ferencz, who he said was born in Timișoara and knows the Romanian language. Szabolcs Ferencz spoke at the conference in English. “I greet my FGSZ counterpart in Hungary, he is from somewhere in the Mioritic lands, from the Timişoara area, where he was born, he speaks the Romanian language well and the Romanian tradition that he has learned since the first 18 years of life. Thank you for the stress test, via the letter you sent me last night. Exactly on December 2, they want to test us if we have completed BRUA, which until now could not be done with a godevilation if there were no capacity reserves.Sterian said.
The Transgaz boss seems upset that the Hungarian side wants to test BRUA on December 2. “I assure you that at least 200,000 cubic meters per hour will be guaranteed, that BRUA is in operation, and in the relationship with Hungary it has been operational for a month, to ensure the capacity of 1.75 billion cubic meters. Now that we will be after the national day, we will come with what we had the day before, to celebrate together. You could delay after 2 or come with godevil nowSterian added.
He affirmed that he has a personal collaboration with the head of FGSZ and that he had, in recent days, a longer telephone conversation, which included “entering into the investigation, decarbonisation and controlled injection of oxygen with transmission pipelines.”
“The reality of Eastern Europe is not well known in London, in Oxford”
As for Julian Bowden, an expert at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), Ion Sterian said he was “on the side” for certain statements he made at the conference, which show that “the reality on the ground, Eastern Europe, Central Europe and the Balkans are not very well known in London, in Oxford. ”
“He regretted the gas source, the drop in Russian gas sales, without having any statement on BRUA, which stands for BRUA, for the security of gas supply to Romania and countries in Eastern, Central and Balkan Europe. Probably we help you better documented to have the reality on the ground.The Transgaz headline also said about the Oxford expert’s remarks. He also criticized references made on the TurkStream Russian project. Julian Bowden had said that there is a wider range of access to resources in the area, highlighting the project. Russian.
“What are we talking about? About TurkStream 2? Well, the same size with the same hat. Traffic was reduced in the trans-Balkan corridor, in the Russia-Moldova, Russia-Ukraine-Romania-Bulgaria-Greece relationship, and Turkstream 2 came from the same source (Russian edition). So we can not rejoice today to have diversified sourcesSterian said.
He criticized the fact that nothing is happening on the side of the interconnection between Bulgaria and Greece, in the vertical corridor, given that in the summer of 2017 a memorandum was signed between the states involved. “Nothing happened. I tried many times, first myself, and then he came to lead the FDZS and Mr. Szabolcs, to have meetings, to discuss the configuration of the vertical corridor, with Bulgaria first. Nothing happened, because we woke up with total opposition, our Bulgarian counterparts did not respond to any direction. I came back again and, at the beginning of December last year, I signed another memorandum in Brussels, in the presence of the European Commission, through DG Energy. Nothing happened and we are talking about the diversification of gas sources, willIon Sterian said.
In your opinion, “and the others, Bulgarians and Greeks, (must) keep up the good work, not just the front statements of high officials, we are all tired of stories“.
“Here, in fact, even by phone, we discuss sending a joint letter to BulgarTransgaz, to the project company dealing with the interconnection between Bulgaria and Greece and to DESFA from Greece to see if we have a chance together, to move, to vote. things in place. Not much has happened with source diversification, as Mr Volintiru (Romgaz editor-in-chief) stated that we have various infrastructures. But we still have the same gas. We have the same source of gas. Transgaz proposed projects that he implemented, not paper projects“continued the head of Transgaz. Adrian Volintiru, director of Romgaz, the gas producing company, had spoken of the diversification of transport routes that is essential and also of the numerous projects planned.
“We expect Mr. Volintiru to correlate Transgaz’s development strategy with Romgaz’s development strategy. It has not happened to this day.”
Ion Sterian took the opportunity to publicly ask Romgaz to increase its gas production, since consumption will increase. “I am sure that BRUA will work, transport gas and capacity will have to be increased. In Romania, gas consumption, down from Romgaz, Petrom’s onshore production, will increase and it will be necessary to exploit the Black Sea gas. Romania’s consumption will increase by more than 8 billion cubic meters At the Transgaz level, in the government program to connect localities to gas, consumption will increase by about 4.4 billion cubic meters We have requests from Transgaz on the side of electricity from cogeneration, of more than 3.5 billion cubic meters and we are awaiting other requests for the start-up of new industrial production capacities. We need Romgaz to increase its production both onshore, and I highlight this aspect, as offshore.“Ion Sterian stated.
The head of Transgaz not accidentally said the word “land”. One of the largest gas fields in the country is in Caragele, but Romgaz is delaying its exploitation to its true capacity. Volintiru says that in Caragele, at shallow depth, there are several dozen wells, and in Caragele Deep 5-6 exploration wells are installed. But deep-sea exploitation is delayed.
He also said that “the other operators, other dealers in the Black Sea, should make investment decisions as soon as possibleSterian announced that around December 15, if there are no appeals, the contract will be signed with the consortium that will win the tender for the construction of the Tuzla-Pododior gas pipeline, which would transport gas from the Black Sea to BRUA.
Sterian reproached Volintiru for not being involved in correlating the development strategies of the two companies. “I waited for Mr. Volintiru for several months to discuss in a memorandum, not only with Romgaz, but also with the other producers, to correlate Transgaz’s development strategy with Romgaz’s development strategy. It hasn’t happened to this daySterian added.
The head of Transgaz also affirmed that they must unite “so as not to have plans only on paper, words to the wind, to get down to work, which we do not have to share, if we want to advance.
Ion Sterian recalled that this year the Ungheni-Chisinau gas pipeline was also completed, through which one billion cubic meters of gas could be transported to the Republic of Moldova at any time.
