SNTGN Transgaz inaugurated the Jupa Natural Gas Compression Station, part of the BRUA Phase 1 project, a project on the list of Projects of Common Interest of the European Union and developing in the context of the need to diversify gas sources in EU countries.

The BRUA project aims to ensure access to new gas sources, as well as facilitating the transport of Caspian gas to markets in Central and Eastern Europe. The project provides bi-directional transport capacity of 1.5 billion cubic meters per year in / from Bulgaria, and 4.4 billion cubic meters per year in / from Hungary.

“By the way it has managed the BRUA project so far, Transgaz has proven that it is capable of managing strategic initiatives of European scale. BRUA is on schedule, as we said every time, and in the next period we will continue to inaugurate new investment objectives within this project,” said Ion Sterian, General Manager of Trangaz.

”In addition to BRUA, Transgaz is simultaneously managing other major investment projects, such as those that allow the development of the National Natural Gas Transport System so that each local community has access to gas, but also the Ungheni-Chisinau gas pipeline, which will lead to growth of the degree of regional energy security and will provide a new economic and energy perspective to the Republic of Moldova.”