BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 7. At this moment Croatian Plinacro company has a building permit for the Ionian Adriatic Pipeline (IAP) development at pipeline section from Dugopolje to Ploče, and location permit for Ploče-Montenegro border section, the company told Trend.
“Development of main design and issuance of building permits for Ploče-Montenegro border section will be coordinated with our partners from Albania and Montenegro which are dealing with ESIA procedures and pipeline design,” said the company.
Ionian Adriatic Pipeline can be connected to the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) to transport gas to many countries in South-East Europe. The pipeline with total length of 516 kilometers will stretch from Albania through Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, to split in Croatia.
The capacity of the pipeline will amount to five billion cubic meters of gas per year.
TAP has already signed memorandums of understanding and cooperation with the developers of this project, in particular with companies of Plinacro (Croatia), BH-Gas (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Geoplin Plinovodi (Slovenia), as well as with the governments of Montenegro and Albania.
A TAP-IAP joint working group has been established, that gathers regularly to synchronize the timing of both pipeline projects and coordinate the technical issues of interconnection. In particular, Croatia expects to receive approximately 2.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year through the IAP.
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