(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 12. All facilities of
the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB), which envisages
transportation of Azerbaijani gas, have been filled with gas,
Trend reports
via the ICGB AD, the project company.
Reportedly, ICGB submitted to the Ministry of Regional
Development and Public Works an updated proposal for the
introduction of phasing of the implementation of the remaining
activities for the start of commercial operation of the
facility.
“Currently, all main construction activities for the
implementation of the project have been completed, and since
mid-June all facilities have been filled with gas and successfully
tested with actual quantities of natural gas. The gas pipeline and
all the adjacent above-ground facilities – seven block valves, two
gas metering stations and one dispatch center – are completed and
technically sound, which was established both by the construction
supervision of the project and by a number of inspections and tests
carried out in recent months. To date, all 182 km and the adjacent
facilities are filled with natural gas at a pressure of 40 bar. The
execution of secondary activities, which are not directly related
to the operation of the interconnector but are part of the planned
project activities under the ECP contract, is ongoing,” said the
company.
Aiming at the earliest possible introduction of IGB into
commercial operation and speeding up the administrative processes
necessary for the issuance of Act 15 and Act 16 for the territory
of Bulgaria and the equivalent permits for Greece, ICGB submitted a
proposal to the Bulgarian Ministry of Regional Development and
Public Works for establishing phasing of the project. The main goal
is that all activities necessary for the start of commercial
operation are carried out as a priority in phase 1, which would
allow a timely start of natural gas transmission through the
interconnector. All other activities that are not directly related
to the operation of the facility are included in a separate phase.
They will continue to be implemented in parallel with the operation
of the pipeline.
In phase 1, the highest priority activities include: the already
completed construction of the gas pipeline and the above-ground
facilities, testing of cathodic protection, laying signs along the
gas pipeline, completing the integration and testing of the SCADA
system for automatic control and management of the interconnector,
testing of the fire protection system of the dispatch center,
etc.
Among the set activities for the other phase are: finalizing the
placement of spare optical cable, implementing anti-erosion
measures along the route of the gas pipeline, completion of road to
the gas metering station near Stara Zagora.
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