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Oncoming meeting on building transmission pipeline from Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date: March 9^th 2010 Author: Mirsad Bajtarević, Sarajevo Category: Articles
Topic: Natural gas

Representatives of BH Gas, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Croatian company Plinacro are to meet on Thursday, March 11, to discuss the construction of a transmission pipeline in the Una-Sana canton. The respective pipeline will connect Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Croatian pipeline systems.

As BH Gas have announced, each of the two companies would present their interest regarding the implementation of the project in question and initiate the talks on closing the loan deals, which was the base for implementing the respective infrastructure project. The government of the Una-Sana canton could also begin with the activities regarding the development of gas distribution network in the municipalities within the canton by initiating procedures for granting concessions.

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According to their press release, BH Gas will – during the forthcoming meeting – once again underline the significance of the construction of the pipeline between Bosanski Brod and Zenica, which will connect Bosnia and Herzegovina to either Nabucco or South Stream via the Croatian pipeline system over Slavonski Brod and Donji Miholjac to Hungary.

As they have stated in their press release, the company also wanted to inform the public – which is what they had done also during their recent talks with Gazprom Export – that there was no need to make a feasibility study in Bosnia and Herzegovina, considering the fact that BH Gas surely covered the entire potential gas market in BiH and had the studies made. Regardless of the fact that many people were using all possible means to favour the imaginary SAVA project, BH Gas did not conform to Federation BiH being supplied by Serbian natural gas alone but would endeavour to secure gas supply from two directions by means of a new gas route, BH Gas press release further reads.

Moreover, BH Gas stated that what was particularly worrying was lack of any reactions by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH, which contributed to confusion among project partners, as the Ministry had been taking sides in light of the two entities, favouring the SAVA project which was a mere fiction and the least cost-effective project in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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