BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 24. The process of filling with test quantities of natural gas is to be repeated starting at the gas metering station near the Greek town of Komotini as part of the implementation of the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB) project, the ICGB AD, project company, told Trend.
Reportedly, the facility there is 96 percent complete - it is almost double the scale compared to the station near Stara Zagora and this affects the time required to conduct the relevant test procedures.
“The system for control and management of the pipeline (Supervisory control and data acquisition or SCADA) is in the process of integration. It will cover all elements of the pipeline’s equipment - two gas measuring stations, eight block valves, cathodic protection, security systems and a dispatch center. At the same time, the functional tests of all other auxiliary equipment necessary for the operation of the interconnector are being performed”, said Teodora Georgieva and Konstantinos Karayannakos, Executive Officers of ICGB.
The two noted that these processes include settings for the management of the equipment and the connection between them with parameters for temperature, pressure, emergency activation and status messages. All of them are of utmost importance for the correct and reliable functioning of the technological processes managed by the SCADA system. For this purpose, telecommunication connections are established in advance by means of optical routes.
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