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6.3.5 Projects allowing development of underground gas storage
capacity in South-Eastern Europe
The main objective of these projects is to provide the possibility for seasonal balanc-
ing of supply and demand in South-Eastern Europe, through the development of
underground gas storages in Bulgaria (UGS Chiren Expansion and the construction
of a new gas storage facility), Greece (UGS at South Kavala) and Romania (expan-
sion of the Depomureş storage facility). New storage capacity in the southern part of
the Balkans will be better valued in conjunction with the TAP project.
6.3.6 Project allowing gas to flow in the East-West direction in the
Romania–Hungary–Austria Transmission Corridor
New gas infrastructure will enable additional capacity and security of supply in the
east-west corridor, running through Romania, Hungary, Austria and Slovenia. To this
effect will contribute the newly planned pipelines and a compressor station in
Hungary (i. e. pipeline Városföld – Ercsi –Győr, pipeline Ercsi-Szazhalombatta and
CS Városföld), the implementation of reverse flow capacity on the existing
interconnection between Hungary and Romania (CS Csanádpalota) as well as a new
reverse flow interconnection between Hungary and Slovenia (Slovenian–Hungarian
interconnector on Hungarian territory and R15/1 Lendava-Kidričevo on Slovenian
territory).
6.3.7 Projects allowing development of underground gas storage
capacity in Italy
Planned gas pipeline projects that will establish a new supply route from east to
west, along the Southern Corridor, will increase their impact on Security of Supply
and multiply their positive effects on the Region and overall Europe if coupled with
the increased flexibility provided by several planned underground gas storage
facilities in Italy (Bordolano and System Enhancements by Stogit, San Potito e
Cotignola, Palazzo Moroni, and Nuovi Sviluppi by Edison Stoccaggio, Grottole-Fer-
randina by Gas Storage, UGS Cornegliano by IGS), most of them in the northern part
of the country.
