“By the beginning of 2023, Serbia will be connected by gas interconnection with Bulgaria so that we can get gas from other directions as well,” Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Mining and Energy Zorana Mihajlovic said today.
“A week ago, a public call for the appointment of a supervisory body was announced. I expect that a tender for the construction of the gas pipeline, the Nis-Dimitrovgrad interconnection will be announced next week and that we will have a contractor in the next two and a half to three months,” said Mihajlovic during her visit to the municipality of Vlasotince.
The works on that interconnection will last a year and a half, so at the beginning of 2023, Serbia will be connected to Bulgaria, which will give us the opportunity to get gas from another direction, said Mihajlovic.
She added that interconnection projects with Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro are being worked on at the same time this year, because they want Serbia to be unavoidable in gas transit.
Our part of the route from Nis to Dimitrovgrad is 108 kilometers long and will cost 85.5 million euros.
The Bulgarian part of the interconnection route from the border with Serbia to Sofia, in the length of 62 kilometers, will cost close to 77 million euros, the minister said, Dnevnik reports.
