November 3 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's state-owned gas transmission system operator Bulgartransgaz said it has completed emergency repair works on a rupture of a section of TurkStream pipeline on its territory that led to suspension of gas deliveries to Serbia, Hungary and Romania earlier this week.
Bulgartransgaz has scheduled to resume the transmission of natural gas to Serbia and Hungary starting at 2400 local time (2200 GMT) on November 2, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
"At the same time, the transmission to Romania will be increased," the company added.
Natural gas deliveries to Romania, Serbia and Hungary, were suspended on Monday morning due to a rupture in the TurkStream section between valve assembly Vetrino and valve assembly Hrabrovo, in northeastern Bulgaria
"On November 1, an emergency occurred at 3 am along the gas transmission network of Bulgartransgaz in the region of the village of Vetrino. A section of the old gas pipeline transporting gas to Romania has broken," Bulgatransgaz said on Monday. After 8 am on November 1 deliveries to Romania were partly restored, Bulgatransgaz said back then.
As of October 1, Russia's Gazprom started supplying natural gas to Hungary and Croatia via TurkStream, effectively bypassing Ukraine as a transit country. Also on October 1, Serbia and Hungary officially opened a cross-border interconnection allowing natural gas flow between them through TurkStream.
In December 2019, Serbia completed the laying on its territory of about 400 km of pipes of a section of TurkStream pipeline for the transit of natural gas to Europe from Turkey via Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary. The country received the first quantities of natural gas through Bulgaria in December 2020.