Beglej-Dermantsi-Batultsi-Kalugerovo Pipeline

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Beglej-Dermantsi-Batultsi-Kalugerovo Pipeline is an operating gas pipeline in Bulgaria.

Location

The pipeline runs through Beglej, Dermantsi, Batultsi, and Kalugerovo, Bulgaria.

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Pipeline details

• Operator: Bulgartransgaz EAD
• Owner: Bulgartransgaz EAD
• Parent: Bulgarian Energy Holding EAD

• Capacity:
• Length: 58 km / 36 miles
• Diameter: 27.5 inches
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1975
• Financing: €27 million grant from the EU's Connecting Europe Facility for rehabilitation work

Background

The pipeline was commissioned in two stages in 1973 and 1975 as a part of the national gas transmission network.

Expansion projects

Rehabilitation and Partial Replacement

• Operator: Bulgartransgaz EAD
• Owner: Bulgartransgaz EAD
• Parent: Bulgarian Energy Holding EAD
• Capacity: no additional capacity
• Length: 0 new km (relative to existing transmission system)
• Diameter:
• Status: Operating
• Start year: 2022
• Cost: €67.48 million
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure:

In January 2019 the European Union awarded €27 million to Bulgartransgaz for the rehabilitation and partial replacement of the pipeline. According to the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG) Ten Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP), the Beglej-Dermantsi-Batultsi-Kalugerovo Pipeline update is a part of the "modernization and rehabilitation of the Bulgarian GTS" (known as "TRA-F-298").

Bulgartransgaz 2020-2029 TYNDP states it is "envisaged that the construction will take place in the period 2020–2021."

ENTSOG stated that the modernization and rehabilitation project was expected to be commissioned in 2024.

However, the 2022–2031 TYNDP of Bulgartransgaz notes that the project has been commissioned as of January, 2022.