#IGB is progressing well and the design, procurement and construction contract is being implemented according to the approved updated schedule with a deadline for completion in December 2021. After the completion of the #construction activities at the end of this year, a number of obligatory procedures and legal commitments will take place before commissioning, which will take between 4 and 6 months. 

This includes authorization procedure, establishment of a #commercial dispatching system, full licensing of the project company for the gas transmission activity on the territory of the two countries (Greece and Bulgaria), certification of #ICGB as a transmission network operator and introduction of the model of an independent transmission operator. At the same time, a comprehensive test of the #infrastructure of the gas #pipeline must be performed, including testing with actual supplies of natural gas. According to the current schedule, the activities until commissioning will be completed by July 1, 2022 at the latest. 

The ICGB team and the contractors of the main project activities are actively working on the completion of the #interconnector  in a timely manner and under conditions that meet the highest international quality requirements. Read more: https://cutt.ly/mnoo0jB