Trans-Balkan Pipeline

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Trans-Balkan Pipeline is an operating gas

Location

The pipeline runs from Istanbul, Turkey. It passes through Bulgaria at Strandzha, before running North through Romania at Constanta, connecting with the Shebelinka-Dnipropetrovsk–Kryvyi Rih–Rozdilna-Izmail Gas Pipeline at Orlovka, Ukraine. The pipeline also features an additional branch in Bulgaria from Lozenets to Stara Zagora, before ending in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Project details

• Operator: Trans Balkan Pipeline B.V
• Owner:
• Parent company:
• Capacity: 27 billion cubic meters/year
• Length:
• Diameter:
• Status: Operating
• Start year: 1988
• Associated infrastructure: Shebelinka-Dnipropetrovsk–Kryvyi Rih–Rozdilna-Izmail Gas Pipeline

Background

This pipeline, built in 1988, is a bidirectional pipeline running through Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania. It has historically been used mainly to transport Russian gas through Ukraine (using the Shebelinka-Dnipropetrovsk–Kryvyi Rih–Rozdilna-Izmail Gas Pipeline) to Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. It has a maximum capacity of 27 bcm/year, and is estimated to be X km long.

However, following the commissioning of the TurkStream Gas Pipeline, usage of the pipeline was drastically reduced, with the pipeline only carrying 1-2 bcm of natural gas in 2020. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there has been conversation around utilizing the pipeline to transport gas from the South to Ukraine.