DESFA-AlbGaz to form joint venture for TAP pipeline in Albania - ANA-MPA

13/ 04/ 2017

Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator S.A (DESFA) and Albania's AlbGaz have agreed to set up a joint venture to operate and maintain the sections of the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) in Albania. 

A memorandum of understanding signed by DESFA CEO Sotirios Nikas and AlbGaz CEO Klodian Gradeci in Tirana on Wednesday calls for the transfer of knowhow from DESFA to the new venture, which will be based in the Albanian capital.

Details on the new company's corporate structure will be decided by a working group set up for this purpose in the coming weeks.

Greece and FYROM to study gas interconnector option - NATURAL GAS WORLD

October 21st, 2016, 3:20pm, by Kama Mustafayeva 

Greece gas grid operator DESFA and state-owned Former Yugoslav Republic's Macedonian Energy Resources (FYR MER) signed a memorandum of understanding to build a 160-km interconnector linking Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on October 17 in the capital Skopje.

The companies will prepare feasibility study for the line that starts in Nea Mesimvria in northern Greece and ends in Stip. The MoU was signed by DESFA CEO Sotiris Nikas and his counterpart at FYR MER, Krste Miladinov.

The line will connect FYROM to the TransAdriatic pipeline (TAP) now being built, and other prospective nearby gas corridors such as Turkish Stream. It will also provide the Former Yugoslav Republic with direct LNG supply from Greece’s terminal in Revithoussa off Athens, Miladinov said at the signing ceremony.