Romania’s minister-delegate for Energy Razvan Nicolescu announced the start of operations to load the pipeline during the Cabinet meeting Tuesday.
The natural gas pipeline linking the Romanian city of Iasi to Ungheni in the neighboring Republic of Moldova will be inaugurated Wednesday by the prime minsters of the two countries.
The 43-kilometer long pipeline has an initial capacity of 1.5 billion to 2 billion cubic meters of gas a year, higher than Moldova’s current imports of Russian gas.
Romania produces around 11 billion cubic meters of gas a year and imports an additional 2.5-3 billion cubic meters from Russia.