BRUA – Phase 1 is due to be completed at the end of 2019 and is estimated to cost EUR560 million. The pipeline will be 550 km long and a maximum capacity to deliver 1.5 billion cubic meters of gas annually to Bulgaria adn 4.4 billion cubic meters to Hungary.
Phase 1 entails the construction of the gas transmission pipeline Podisor-Recas; three gas compressor stations at Podisor, Bibesti and Jupa, each being equipped with two compression aggregates (one operational and one for backup), with the possibility of ensuring a bidirectional natural gas flow.
So far Transgaz has completed 215 km of pipeline. It said the gas compressor station at Jupa is complete and under testing. It will be put to service on Oct 1, 2019. The station at Podisor is 90% complete and will be serviceable in November, while the station at Bibesti is 80% complete and will be serviceable in April 2020.