Transgaz offered assurances that the works at the Ungheni-Chisinau gas pipeline are on schedule and it will be ready in the first half of this year, in response to a series of articles published in the Moldovan press, according to which the pipeline will be completed only next year.

“The execution works at the Ungheni – Chisinau gas pipeline are on schedule on all the lots, the term of completion being the first semester of 2020,” a company statement said.

Until the end of the project “SNT developments in the North-East area of Romania in order to improve the natural gas supply of the area as well as to ensure the transport capacity to and from the Republic of Moldova” (term of completion 2021), the transport capacity through The national system of natural gas transportation in Romania and the Iasi-Ungheni – Chisinau gas pipeline, from our country to the Republic of Moldova, will be of 1.5 million cubic meters/day, Transgaz representatives say, according to Agerpres.