Trans-Balkan Pipeline

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Trans-Balkan Pipeline is an operating gas pipeline.

Location

The pipeline runs from Istanbul, Turkey. It passes through Bulgaria at Strandzha, before running North through Romania at Constanta, connecting with the Shebelinka-Dnipropetrovsk–Kryvyi Rih–Rozdilna-Izmail Gas Pipeline at Orlovka, Ukraine. The pipeline also features an additional branch in Bulgaria from Lozenets to Stara Zagora, before ending in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Project details

• Operator: Trans Balkan Pipeline B.V
• Owner:
• Parent company:
• Capacity: 27 billion cubic meters/year
• Length:
• Diameter:
• Status: Operating
• Start year: 1988
• Associated infrastructure: Shebelinka-Dnipropetrovsk–Kryvyi Rih–Rozdilna-Izmail Gas Pipeline

Background

This pipeline, built in 1988, is a bidirectional pipeline running through Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania. It has historically been used mainly to transport Russian gas through Ukraine (using the Shebelinka-Dnipropetrovsk–Kryvyi Rih–Rozdilna-Izmail Gas Pipeline) to Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. It has a maximum capacity of 27 bcm/year, and is estimated to be X km long.

However, following the commissioning of the TurkStream Gas Pipeline, usage of the pipeline was drastically reduced, with the pipeline only carrying 1-2 bcm of natural gas in 2020. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there has been conversation around utilizing the pipeline to transport gas from the South to Ukraine.