​Transgaz, OMV-Petrom and Romgaz signed an agreement on capacity reservation on Thursday, which provides for the development of the Tuzla-Podishor gas pipeline, through which natural gas from the Black Sea will enter the national transport system and thus reach economic operators and households in populated areas. connected to the system.

The document was signed in the presence of Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke, who emphasized that this step is “a decisive step, the penultimate in a series of steps for the exploitation of gas from the Black Sea in the Neptun Deep perimeter.”

• “The signing of the document by Transgaz, OMV-Petrom and Romgaz is a firm commitment to the development of the Tuzla-Podisor gas pipeline and the adoption of a final decision on the investment of 4 billion euros, which is expected in the summer of this year. We all want this strategically important project for Romania to move forward and natural gas development from the Neptun Deep perimeter to start as soon as possible.
• We have offshore legislation, favorable conditions for energy investments, we are preparing the development of gas transport infrastructure, which will be extracted from the Black Sea.
• The newly initialed document envisages the construction of a gas pipeline in the direction of Tuzla-Podishor with a length of more than 300 kilometers. This investment, estimated at 500 million euros, will allow gas from the Black Sea to flow into the national transport system at the Podishor technological hub and thus reach economic operators and households in the settlements connected to the system.” said the Prime Minister.

According to HotNews.ro, the investment, estimated at EUR 500 million, belongs to Transgaz, and OMV-Petrom and Romgaz have virtually signed a capacity reservation agreement for the transportation of natural gas, according to which they commit to use the pipeline that will be built by Transgas.

Investments of 4 billion euros, about which the prime minister spoke, belong to OMV-Petrom and Romgaz.

• “Another advantage of this project is the connection between new sources of natural gas in the Trans-Balkan Corridor and the vertical corridor, of which the BRUA pipeline is a part. Transgaz has signed an implementation contract, work will begin after the concessionaires of the offshore perimeters in the Black Sea make a final investment decision,” Chuke said.

Transgaz: OMV Petrom and Romgaz – bank guarantees for 88 million euros to reserve capacity in the future gas pipeline

In a press release after the event at Victoria Palace, Transgaz announced that it had prepared in advance for this project and signed a contract for execution, the work will start after the final investment decision by the offshore concessionaires from the Black Sea. , announced for the middle of this year.

• “Transgaz has successfully implemented and completed the process of increasing the capacity for the entry/exit point to/from the SNT, which will be created in the area of ​​the city of Tuzla, from where the gases from the Black Sea will reach the shore. , allocating a capacity of 1,323,920,520 MWh for the period 01/05/2026-01/10/2042, and two companies, OMV Petrom SA and Romgaz SA, have offered mandatory requests for capacity increases.
• The cumulative value of the obligations of successful applicants is 2.82 billion lei.
• OMV Petrom and Romgaz, partners of the Neptun Deep project, expressed their desire to reserve transportation capacity for natural gas produced from the Black Sea in the commitment phase of the capacity increase process for the entry/exit point to/from SNT, carried out by Transgaz and constituted a bank guarantee for the amount EUR 88 million (EUR 44 million each) to reserve capacity on the natural gas pipeline that Transgaz will build in the Tuzla region.” This is stated in the press release of “Transgaz”.

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