Kotryna Žukauskaitė, Qapqa, Lithuania, details the collaboration involved in the challenging construction of the Gas Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (ICGB).
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he Gas Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria gas pipeline (ICGB) is a 182 km long strategic pipeline project that will run from Komotini, Northeastern Greece, to Stara Zagora in Bulgaria. Interconnector project’s main contractor is the Greek company AVAX. ICGB is planned to be linked with the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) route, offering Bulgaria and the wider Southeast European region access to Caspian gas as well as LNG. The project is a key part of the strategy
for greater integration of gas markets, which includes interconnection projects from Bulgaria – Greece, Bulgaria – Romania, Bulgaria – Serbia, and Romania – Hungary.
Cooperation between DS-1 and Qapqa DS-1 is a company specialising in all type of welding work for the international scope. Three years ago this fast-growing company had their first interconnector project, the so-called Baltic-connector, bridging from Estonia to Finland. The DS-1 team was responsible for
Figure 1. Automatic welding continues during Bulgarian winter. Photo taken by Qapqa technician Ferdinando Carnovale. Kardzali, Bulgaria.
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