BRUA pipeline
Natural gas pipeline in Romania / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The BRUA pipeline is a natural gas pipeline from Podișor, Giurgiu County to Recaș, Timiș County part of the future Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria gas interconnector. The pipeline attempts to lessen the country's dependence on Russian energy and provide a new export route for the future natural gas exploitation in the Black Sea. The BRUA pipeline will be eventually linked to the Giurgiu–Ruse and the Arad–Szeged pipelines.[1]
BRUA pipeline | |
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Location | |
Country | Romania |
General direction | east–west |
From | Podișor, Giurgiu County |
Passes through | Romania |
To | Recaș, Timiș County |
General information | |
Type | natural gas |
Partners | Transgaz |
Operator | Transgaz |
Expected | 2019 |
Technical information | |
Length | 479 km (298 mi) |
Maximum discharge | 4.4 billion cubic meters (0.15 Tcf) per year |
Diameter | 32 in (813 mm) |
Preparations for the project started in 2016, the financing agreements were signed in 2017 and the actual construction phase kicked off in the first quarter of 2018. The project is developed by Transgaz, the technical operator of the national natural gas transmission system in Romania. The first phase of the pipeline was completed in 2020 at a cost of €423 million[2] and the pipeline is operational since June 2023[3]