“Welding is scheduled to start on October 2, while the main works on the gas pipeline will be completed by December 20, 2013,” said the consortium comprising Austrian company HABAU PPS Pipeline Systems and Romanian firms Inspet and IPM Partners.
The constructors deemed as “unjust” a series of comments and media allegations regarding construction delays.
Their statement was issued just hours after a visit of Romanian President Traian Basescu to the construction site in Iasi, where he only found a guard and the site’s supervisor.
The construction of the Iasi-Ungheni pipeline started in late August. Costs are estimated at EUR24.5 million, of which EUR7 million comes from the European Union.
When completed, the pipeline will ensure an annual transport of 1.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas.