Prime Minister Kiril Petkov

Kirill Petkov Petkov was born in 1980. He is one of the founders of the Center for Economic is on a one-day visit to the Greek city of Komotini, where together with his colleague Kyriakos Mitsotakis, he will inaugurate the Intersystem Gas Connection Greece-Bulgaria (IGB).

This is one of the slowest projects, the implementation of which has been developing for the last 12 years.

Only for the last 6 months, however, the government of Kiril Petkov

Kirill Petkov Petkov was born in 1980. He is one of the founders of the Economic Center and gave a serious push so that the full amount of Azeri gas contracted by Bulgargaz could flow to our country.

The intersystem gas connection Greece - Bulgaria has been announced by the European Commission as a project of common EU interest.

Its capacity is 3 billion cubic meters per year, which is approximately the consumption of our country.

The Greece-Bulgaria interconnector starts daily gas supply at the end of July

It is considered to be the main route for the import of Azerbaijani gas, but also for the supply by ship of liquefied gas from the USA or the countries of the Persian Gulf.

Its capacity can be increased to 5 billion.

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the facility to have regional importance with transit supplies mainly to Romania, but also to North Macedonia.

The linear part is completely fulfilled.

All pipes are welded, laid, buried and hydrotested.

Passed hydraulic tests ensure that the facility has the required strength, meets all industry standards and is quality built.

Petkov from Greece: The interconnector will end the Russian gas monopoly

Greece's energy minister said the interconnector would "start daily natural gas supply" at the end of this month.

Another floating liquefied gas storage platform has also been built on Revitusa Island.

The amount of gas in storage has been doubled.

Athens and Sofia have an agreement to supply Bulgaria with regular quantities of gas from Revitusa.

This terminal already covers 80% of our country's needs.

Kiril Petkov officially opens the Greece-Bulgaria gas connection

Until the commercial operation of the interconnector, Bulgaria will receive in full the agreed quantities of Azeri gas at the temporary delivery point - Nea Mesemvria.

The route, which will provide at least a third of Bulgaria's consumption on an annual basis, has been expected for a long time, but unclear - at least officially - reasons have so far prevented its construction.

Unlike the construction of the Russian Turkish Stream project, which was completed in about a year and a half. 

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