Bulgaria dismantled pipes of South Stream

Bulgaria dismantled the pipes of the South Stream pipeline on its territory from the first weld, according to the Bulgarian edition Bivol.

This happened after the European Parliament decided that the project South Stream should not be implemented," the newspaper notes.

The first weld, as a symbol of the beginning of construction of the Russian pipeline through Bulgaria was made in October 2013 with the participation of the Russian company Gazprom.

On April 17 the European Parliament is going to consider a resolution that provides for the termination of the project South Stream. It is prepared by representatives of the European People's Party, European Socialists, Liberals, Greens and Conservatives.

"South Stream is a Russian-Italian-French-German gas pipeline project, which was supposed to run under the Black Sea from the Anapa district in the Bulgarian port of Varna. Next came two branches through the Balkans to Italy and Austria. The construction began December 7, 2012 and was scheduled to end in 2015.

The planned capacity of the South Stream is 63 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The estimated project cost is 16 billion euros.

South Stream was created to diversify the supply of Russian natural gas to Europe and reduce the dependence of suppliers and buyers from transit countries, particularly Ukraine and Turkey. South Stream was considered a competitive project to the planned gas pipeline Nabucco from Azerbaijan, which has to pass through Turkey to Europe, and which is supported by the European Union and the United States . -02D-