Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic said that she expects maximum efforts from all the participants in the project of the gas interconnection between Serbia and Bulgaria so it would be completed within the deadline – in October 2023. During her visit to construction site, she said that this is a strategically important project in the gas sector, but also in the country’s energy sector in general, as it would secure an additional route and a greater security of the supply of natural gas.
Djedovic reminded that there were negotiations with representatives of Azerbaijan about the quantities of gas that Serbia could receive from that country for the purposes of the upcoming heating season, adding that it was 300 to 500 million cubic meters, maybe even more.
The Serbian section of the pipeline is 109 kilometers long, and the total length of the twoway gas pipeline through both states is 170 kilometers, from Novi Iskar near Sofia to Nis. The gas pipeline has a capacity of 1.8 billion cubic meters of gas a year.
