BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 12
By Leman Zeynalova - Trend:
The European Commission has published the list of actions supported by the European Union within the Southern Gas Corridor project, Trend reports.
Below, we will present only the ongoing Actions supported by EU within this project.
The first Action is the Environmental Monitoring with total eligible costs of €6,715,800. Maximum EU contribution for the Action is €2,014,740. The beneficiary is Tanap Doğalgaz İletim Anonim Sirketi (Turkey).
This specific Action's scope includes the environmental monitoring of the TANAP Natural Gas Pipeline Project (entire PCI), as committed in the ESIA (Environmental and Social Impact Assessment) Report. The Action concerns third-party environmental monitoring by the beneficiary during all of the construction works, as legally required by the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanization and per international best practice.
The second is the Pre-FEED, Reconnaissance Surveys and Strategic and Economic Evaluations of the Trans-Caspian Pipeline. Total eligible cost is €3,743,450 and maximum EU contribution is €1,871,725. The beneficiary is W-Stream Caspian Pipeline Company OÜ (Estonia).
The main aim of the Action is to define the pre-Front-End Engineering Design (pre-FEED) of the Trans Caspian Pipeline (TCP) to transport natural gas from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan crossing the Caspian Sea. The pre-FEED design is divided in two sections. An initial phase, where the basic data, engineering and preliminary routing will be established and a follow-up phase where the proposed route reconnaissance survey contracts will be defined and awarded and where the mechanical design will be developed to proceed with the FEED.
The third is the Cathodic protection verification and re-modification studies for "As-Built" design with total eligible costs of €10,088,788. Maximum EU contribution is €5,044,394. Beneficiary is Tanap Doğalgaz İletim Anonim Sirketi A.S. (Turkey).
The Action contributes to the development of the TANAP pipeline by ensuring the review of cathodic protection design, site supervision during construction works and performance of verification surveys, prolonging the operating period of the infrastructure and providing operational integrity of the pipeline itself, as well as of every single installation along the route including compressor, metering and block valve stations. In addition, the Action also aims to deliver re-modification studies for the “As-Built design”, aiming to assess design changes during construction, validating the integrity of pipeline and stations due to such changes and making sure that those changes are reflected in the final engineering drawings as “As-Built design”.
The fourth is the Development on Romanian territory of the National Gas Transmission System on the Bulgaria-Romania-HungaryAustria direction, execution works Stage 1. Its total eligible cost stands at €448,301,000 with maximum EU contribution equaling to €179,320,400.
The Action contributes to the implementation of the Project of Common Interest (PCI) 7.1.5 “Gas pipeline from Bulgaria to Austria via Romania and Hungary”, which consists in a new onshore pipeline with a length of approx. 1318 km and with a delivery capacity of 6.1 mcm/day in Bulgaria, 6.1 mcm/day in Romania, 6.1 mcm/day in Hungary and 52 mcm/day in Austria. The initial throughput capacity is of 23 bcm/year. The power of the compressor stations amounts to a total of 345 MW.
The fifth is the EastMed Pipeline Project – Development Phase with total eligible costs of €69,000,000. Maximum EU contribution is €34,500,000. The beneficiary is the Natural Gas Submarine Interconnector Greece-Italy Poseidon S.A. (Greece).
The Action contributes to the implementation of the PCI 7.3.1 'EastMed Pipeline', aiming at contributing to the diversification of gas supply sources and routes to the EU, ending the isolation of Cyprus and Crete, developing new gas production in the Eastern Mediterranean region and facilitating gas exchanges in Southeast Europe.
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