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20.08.2010 08:00
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According to a publication of Energy Delta News, citing upstreamonline.com, Bosnia’s gas company BH-Gas which currently relies only on Russian supplies via Ukraine, Hungary and Serbia, wants to diversify supply sources through joining Nabucco and the Transadriatic Pipeline (TAP). Annually the Balkan country needs some 350 million cubic meters of gas that it needs annually.
"For safety reasons, we need to have the possibility of supplies from two directions - from Nabucco in the north and from the TAP in the south," Almir Becarevic, the general manager of BH-Gas told a news conference he called together with Botas General Manager Fazil Senel. In the same time, Bosnia's Serb Republic, which has close ties with Serbia and Russia, agreed in March with Russian pipeline gas export monopoly Gazprom , to join the South Stream project. It plans to build a 480 km pipeline along the Sava River in northern Bosnia with capacity of up to 1.5 billion cubic meters and link it to the South Stream pipeline in neighboring Serbia. The Muslim-Croat federation, where BH-Gas is based, has also been offered the chance to join South Stream at a later date, upstreamonline.com reminds.
Becarevic said Bosnia needed access to both South Stream and Nabucco. He asked for support from Turkish pipeline operator Botas for the construction of a 250-km pipeline network linked with Croatia in the north, enabling it to connect to Nabucco via an interconnection being built towards Hungary. Botas could also help Bosnia connect to the TAP in the south via Croatia, Becarevic said. TAP bring gas from the Caspian basin and the Middle East through Greece and Italy to western Europe.
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