site.btaPM to Attend Groundbreaking Ceremony for LNG Terminal in Alexandroupolis

Prime Minister Kiril Petkov is going to Greece Tuesday to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for an LNG terminal in Alexandroupolis together with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Bulgartransgaz has a 20 per cent stake in the terminal which is expected to be completed by 2023.

The terminal will comprise a floating storage, a regasification unit and 28km of subsea and onshore pipelines to connect with Greece’s gas system. Natural gas will be supplied to Bulgaria, Serbia, and North Macedonia through existing routes.

Within the framework of his visit to Greece, Petkov will inspect the construction of a gas interconnector between Bulgaria and Greece near Komotini. 

The interconnector is a key link in the infrastructure that Bulgaria needs to diversify the sources and routes of gas supply, and end its near-total dependence on Russian gas supply. Ninety-one per cent of all construction works have been completed and the entire route of the interconnector successfully hydrotested as of mid-April. Among the main elements that need to be finished are two gas metering stations at Stara Zagora, South Central Bulgaria, and at Komotini, Greece. 

The pipeline will be 182 km long in total, most of it on Bulgarian territory.

The Bulgarian government expects Azeri gas to be flowing to Bulgaria through the interconnector as of September.