MOSCOW, Sep 17 (PRIME) -- The Supreme Administrative Court of Bulgaria terminated proceedings over choosing a contractor to build a pipeline which will accept gas from Russia’s TurkStream on Tuesday, removing a barrier for construction of an extension of the pipeline to Europe.
A consortium controlled by Saudi Arabia’s Arkad Engineering has remained the contractor.
The TurkStream pipeline was designed to consist of two branches with a length of over 900 kilometers and a capacity of 15.75 billion cubic meters each. One of them, finished in May 2018, is to carry Russian gas to Turkey, while the other is to transit gas to the European countries through Turkey and is to be finished in 2019. Bulgartransgaz plans to build an extension of TurkStream to Europe by the end of 2020.
The company announced Arkad Engineering as the winner of the tender for construction in April, but another participant of the tender Gas Development and Expansion in Bulgaria, contested the decision.
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