Hungarian Minister: the Slovak-Hungarian gas pipeline will start in January
Alexander Kuranov. Slovak-Hungarian gas pipeline starts to act in January 2015, said on the first day of the week the Minister of national development of Hungary Miklos Sestak at a press conference in Bratislava.
" The commercial application of a new gas pipeline between Hungary and Slovakia may begin in January 2015, " said Sestak.- From the Hungarian side all the technical work will be completed in the coming weeks ".
Initially, the pipeline between the 2 countries was planned to enter into force in September, but the Hungarian branch occurred organizational delay. The construction of the Slovak part of the national gas pipeline operator - the Company Eustream has completed in the last month of summer.
The new pipeline is designed to pump 4, 38 billion cubic meters of gas per year, has a length of 110 kilometers, of which 92 km through the territory of Hungary. The Hungarian side of the Building at a cost of 170 million euros, Slovak - 21 million euros. The European Commission has allocated to it the construction of 30 million euros.
Slovak-Hungarian pipeline will become part of the European network of gas pipelines, connecting the countries of Central and Eastern Europe countries in the South of the continent. Slovakia now has the ability to exchange gas With the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Austria. In the coming year will begin design and engineering works for the construction of the pipeline Slovakia-Poland, which will give the opportunity to finish the development of radial North-South line from the Baltic to the Adriatic.
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