Final Preparations Before Commissioning Gas Pipeline from Nis to Dimitrovgrad – Srbijagas Looking for Company for Technical Examination of Section of Interconnection with Bulgaria

The PE Srbijagas has published the tender for the technical examination of the Nis-Dimitrovgrad gas pipeline. This is the main gas pipeline which is part of the gas interconnection with Bulgaria, and the value of the tender has been estimated at RSD 55 million.

The technical examination will encompass all the facilities and works within the project, and in line with the building permit and the project-technical documentation based on which the facility has been built and in line with the regulations and standards.

The deadline for the realization of the service is 180 days from the possession of the site and the submitting of all the necessary documentation.

Applications are open until August 14.

According to the earlier statements made by officials, the construction of the Serbia-Bulgaria gas interconnection is expected to be completed in the autumn, and Serbia has already commenced negotiations with Azerbaijan regarding the procurement of gas from the Caspian region.

In early May, the minister of mining and energy of Serbia, Dubravka Djedovic pointed out that, in the territory of Serbia, 43% of the works on the construction of the Nis-Dimitrovgrad interconnection had been realized, more than planned, and added that 93% of the agreed quantity of pipes had been delivered, whereas 80% had already been set up along the route of the future gas pipeline.

In the Serbian territory, the gas pipeline will be 109 kilometers, and the total length of the two-way 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.

The total value of the gas interconnector Nis-Dimitrovgrad-Bulgaria, according to the estimate of the European Investment Bank (EIB), is 85.5 million, of which the EIB is to provide EUR 25 million in the form of a loan, EUR 49.6 million are EU grants from the IPA funds, whereas the remaining costs will be covered from the budget of Serbia and the PE Srbijagas’s own funds.

The main contractor is Glavbolgarstroy, and in addition to the two-way main gas interconnector, the works in the territory of Serbia include the construction of four measuring-regulation stations and side facilities.

I. Z.

Glavbolgarstroy Holding AD

Evropska investiciona banka EIB

JP Srbijagas Novi Sad

Ministarstvo rudarstva i energetike Republike Srbije

Glavbolgarstroy

European Investment Bank

EIB

PE Srbijagas

Ministry of Mining and Energy

Dubravka Đedović

gas interconnection Serbia Bulgaria

gas pipeline Niš Dimitrovgrad

procurement of gas Azerbaijan