Balkan countries are thinking about extending the “Turkish Stream” to Austria – RBC

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The fact that in September, the Foreign Minister of Hungary, Serbia, Macedonia and Greece will meet and possibly sign a memorandum on the construction of a gas pipeline from Turkey to Austria, told the newspaper one of the participants of the project. The first meeting of the working group for the project has already taken place on June 25.

If the parties agree, Tesla pipeline capacity of 27 billion cubic meters. m and a length of 1300-1400 km will be launched in 2019. The preliminary project cost is estimated at € 4-5 billion.

At the upcoming meeting will decide on the preparation of the feasibility study. This information was confirmed by a representative of the Hungarian gas company FGSZ, which will be responsible for the gas pipeline on the territory of Hungary. The final investment decision will be adopted in the first quarter of 2016 and begin construction – in the first quarter of 2017.

The project is referred to the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG) to obtain the status of the project of public interest. The representative of the network confirmed this information. While the corresponding status in the project there.

The representative of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry told the newspaper that the plan to Tesla will flow gas not only from “the Turkish stream,” but also because of the gas pipeline TANAP, and that Tesla will be able to operate in reverse mode .

The representative of “Gazprom” declined to comment. Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece, Macedonia and Serbia, as well as the gas company DESFA (Greece), GA-MA Skopje (Macedonia) and “Srbiyagaz” (Serbia), who are responsible for Tesla in their countries did not respond to requests for publications.