Komotini-Thesprotia Gas Pipeline

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Komotini-Thesprotia Gas Pipeline was a proposed gas pipeline in Greece. The pipeline operating company in Greece planning the project cancelled the proposal in 2020.

Location

The proposed pipeline would have run from Komotin, Greece to Thesprotia, Greece.

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Project Details

• Owner: DESFA S.A.
• Current capacity:
• Length: 620 km
• Diameter: 42 inches (1,067 mm)
• Status: cancelled
• Start Year: 2025
• Cost: $2,142,000,000
• Associated Infrastructure: Poseidon Gas Pipeline and East Med Gas Pipeline

Background

According to DESFA, the benefit of the project is that it would have "establish[ed] an energy corridor between Asian, Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean gas sources and European consumers. The projects aim[ed] at enhancing the diversification of supply sources at European level and contributing to the improvement of the Security of Supply level in the region of South eastern Europe."

In July 2020, DEFSA announced that the proposal was cancelled, after maintaining the project in the company’s business plans for about a decade. According to EnergyPress, "DESFA reached this decision as Russian President Vladimir Putin is supporting Gazprom’s development of a second branch for the wider Turkish Stream gas project, deviating Ukraine, to supply the Balkans and central Europe via Bulgaria, not Greece, as was initially considered."

The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG) code for the project is TRA-N-14 (sometimes written as TRA-N-014).