BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 28. The Operation
Allow for the Greek part of the interconnector Greece-Bulgaria
was signed, permitting the beginning of the industrial operation of the
pipeline on October 1st, 2022, the ICGB AD, the undertaking firm
advised Pattern.

The gasoline interconnector Greece-Bulgaria was issued an Operation
License for the territory of Greece. That is the final
administrative step crucial for the authorized introduction of the
pipeline into operation on the territory of Greece.

The preparation for fulfilling the stipulations for the
issuance of the Operation Allow for IGB pipeline has began since
January 2022 accompanied by quite a few conferences with authorities, the
third-party inspector, the contractor, with DESFA, TAP and framed
with the gathering and submission of an enormous documentation package deal
protecting each facet of development self-discipline.

An analogous doc was issued at the moment by the Bulgarian facet.

The Govt Officers of ICGB Teodora Georgieva and George
Satlas underlined the significance of the IGB pipeline for Greece,
Bulgaria and the opposite neighboring international locations. They emphasised that
the IGB gasoline pipeline is a very new route for safe pure
gasoline provides, which is able to guarantee diversification of gasoline sources and
will improve the competitors available on the market.

“We want to thank everybody that contributed to IGB’s
profitable development and allowing, permitting the industrial
launch of the pipeline on October 1st, 2022, the official begin of
the brand new heating session,” they mentioned.

IGB is of key significance for rising the safety of gasoline
provides and for making certain the diversification of pure gasoline
sources for Bulgaria and the broader area of Southeast Europe. The
undertaking connects Bulgaria to the Southern Fuel Hall and can
allow safe provides from quite a lot of sources to international locations in
Southeast and Central Europe, together with Moldova and Ukraine.