BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 25. The Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB) will provide to Bulgaria an opportunity to become a real regional hub for gas distribution, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bulgaria to Azerbaijan Rouslan Stoyanov said in an exclusive interview with Trend.
He recalled that the inauguration ceremony of the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB), which was held in Sofia on 1 October 2022 in the presence of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and other heads of state and government as well as the European Commission`s President Ursula von der Leyen, marked the beginning of its commercial operation.
“The IGB is a key route to carry gas from the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) and Greece to Bulgaria and neighboring countries. It is a crucial project for the diversification of gas supply in the South-East European region, a project of common interest and a priority project under the Central and South Eastern Europe Energy Connectivity High-Level Group. IGB together with the well-developed Bulgarian national gas transmission system and already existing gas connectors with Turkey, Greece and Romania will provide to my country an opportunity to become a real regional hub for gas distribution from different sources and different routes to a number of consumers, which in fact is the essence of the diversification. So, the SGC has changed not only Bulgaria’s energy map but the one of the entire Balkan region,” he said.