Showing posts with label Pipeline Progress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pipeline Progress. Show all posts

Friday, June 9, 2017

Over 3000 people working on Greek segment of TAP pipeline - WORLD PIPELINES

Friday, 09 June 2017 10:25Stephanie Roker

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) AG announces that construction in Greece, the pipeline’s greatest geography, advances on time, on track and on budget. Thanks to the efforts of the over 3000 people working for the project, 13 months after the Inauguration Ceremony works have significantly progressed in two of the three northern Greek prefectures to be traversed by the pipeline: eastern Macedonia-Thrace and central Macedonia.

As of end May 2017, out of the approximately 550 km of pipeline in total to be built on Greek soil, TAP’s contractors have already:

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Italy court revokes order that had halted work on TAP pipeline: lawyer - REUTERS

Thu Apr 20, 2017 | 10:11am EDT
Reporting by Giancarlo Navach, writing by Stephen Jewkes

An Italian court has revoked an order that had halted work to remove olive trees from the pathway of a strategic pipeline that will bring central Asian gas into Europe, a lawyer involved in the case said on Thursday.

The decision paves the way for work to restart on the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) which is slated to bring 10 billion cubic metres of gas from Azerbaijan into the small Italian seaside town of San Foca in Apulia by 2020.

Opposition from the local town council and the regional government of Apulia has caused a series of delays to the project.

Monday, January 9, 2017

95 km of TAP pipeline already completed - WORLD PIPELINES

Monday, 09 January 2017 10:40Stephanie Roker

It has recently been announced that 95 km of pipe has been installed on the Trans Adriatic pipeline (TAP), seven months after the opening ceremony for construction.

The 878 km pipeline project will transport natural gas from Turkey’s border to southern Italy, and will cross Greece, Albania and the Adriatic Sea. The gas will supply Balkan and European markets.

The pipeline will hold a transport capacity of approximately 10 billion m3/y and has the potential to increase in the future.

The line is expected to be in-service in 2020.