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The present publication of the “Southern Corridor Gas
Regional Investment Plan” is the third edition of a
report aimed at gathering and processing information
from TSOs of countries which surround or are more
directly influenced by the gas transportation route de-
fined as “Southern Corridor”. As in the second edition,
we tried to offer to the reader a complete picture of the
Region mainly through the “Assessment and Market
analysis” chapter, including the examination of
congestion at Regional IPs, and “Network
Assessments” chapter, where we show modelling
results for the security of supply issue and the response
of the gas flows to the gas supply price signals.
Results reflect all the specific attributes of the area which the readers of this
document have to take into account, in particular:
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This Region hosts new transmission projects with larger capacities than planned
infrastructure in the other Regions. Therefore new potential volumes will have
high influence on security of supply and diversification of routes and/or sourc-
es in the States of the area and all over Europe.
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Many of the members of the Southern Corridor Region are transit countries,
while infrastructure in other Regions has more a balanced role, being mostly
destined to handle internal consumption.
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This Region gathers countries with great variety of their national production.
From one side, we have systems where production is from 0% to 10% of their
peak consumption and may only marginally contribute to cover gas demand
even in normal circumstances, let alone during crisis situation. On the other
side, there are countries where production is a significant element in the supply
mix, representing a substantial factor for the diversification of sources both for
themselves and for their neighbours as well. Nevertheless the gas production
volume in all producing countries of the Region follows a decreasing trend.
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Such mixed picture can be seen also at the demand side, which is affected by
different population sizes of member states, by their geographical spread, from
central parts of Eastern Europe, with high consumption in winter periods, to
Southern Europe countries, with relatively high consumption levels also during
summer and finally, by different market maturity.
Despite these differences all the countries, in the Region, and their TSOs, will be
strongly affected by the construction of any of the big transmission projects and are
prepared to adapt their investments to such possibilities.