Slovakia’s gas pipeline operator Eurostream is proposing to Bulgaria and Romania to build an interconnection to reduce their dependence on Russian gas supplies, Reuters has reported.
According to supporters of the idea,the proposed 570-km interconnection pipeline would carry gas from Western hubs via Slovakia to Ukraine and then on to Romania and Bulgaria, helping to prevent the negative consequences of possible disruptions in Russian gas supplies via Ukraine.
Such discruptions have occurred several times in recent years, resulting in severe economic losses for Balkan countries that still rely heavily on gas supplies from Russia via a single route via Ukraine to meet …read more
Source: Novinite
