Trans-Balkan pipeline

The Trans-Balkan pipeline is a natural gas pipeline between Turkey and Ukraine with branches to Greece and North Macedonia.[1][2][3] It was used by Gazprom for gas deliveries through Balkan countries to Turkey. Before construction of the Blue Stream pipeline is was the only natural gas pipeline supply Turkey.

For other uses, see Balkan pipeline.
Trans-Balkan pipeline

Pipelines of the southern corridor of the natural gas transmission system of Ukraine are connected with the Trans-Balkan pipeline through the Orlivka gas metering and compressor station.[4][5]

Since 2020, its section in Bulgaria from Malkoçlar on the Turkey–Bulgaria border[6] up to the compressor station in Provadia, north-east of Bulgaria, used for transportation of natural gas received from TurkStream.[7] It could be used in reverse mode also to receive Azerbaijan gas via the Trans-Anatolian pipeline.[8]

References
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  2. "The Trans-Balkan pipeline reimagined [GGP]". www.naturalgasworld.com. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
  3. "Gas_25 / Trans-Balkan Corridor bi-directional flow Moldova - Ukraine". www.energy-community.org. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
  4. Korchemkin, Mikhail (2009-01-16). "Gazprom insists on using just one specific pipeline". East European Gas Analysis. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
  5. "Master Plan. Ukrainian Gas Transmission System (UGTS). Priority Objects. Modernisation and Reconstruction" (PDF). Naftogaz. Energy Charter Secretariat. 2009. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
  6. "Ankara to complete TurkStream by end of 2019". Hürriyet Daily News. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  7. Barsukov, Yuri (2018-11-22). «Газпром» сделал трубный выбор [Gazprom made a pipe choice]. Kommersant (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-12-13.
  8. kostisg (2020-12-11). "Europe turns the tables on Russian gas". New Europe. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
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