Russian company Stroytransgaz will start building a gas pipeline in Macedonia that would link the Balkan country’s gas network system to neighbouring Greece.
Stroytransgaz had been commissioned for the construction of the section of Russia-led South Stream gas pipeline in Macedonia’s eastern neighbour Bulgaria. However, it pulled out of the project in August 2014 after EU member Bulgaria froze the project citing objections by the European Commission over the project’s incompatibility with EU energy legislation.
The construction of a Macedonian offshoot of South Stream, however, hasn’t been frozen as the section will enable connection to the Turkish Stream project that Russia announced …read more
Source: Novinite
