April 18 (SeeNews) - The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) consortium said it has completed nearly 80% of the pipe trenching works along the route of the project in Albania and Greece.
TAP has completed the trenching of around 610 km of the 765 km-long route of the pipeline, the consortium said in a Twitter post earlier this week.
“The pipeline will be buried at least 1m under the ground,” TAP said.
TAP will stretch from Greece's border with Turkey, via Albania and across the Adriatic Sea, to reach Italy's coast. It is part of the Southern Gas Corridor which also comprises the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP), which crosses Azerbaijan and Georgia, and the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP).
TAP shareholders are BP, Azerbaijan’s state company Socar and Italy’s Snam with 20% each, Belgium’s Fluxys with 19%, Spain’s Enagas with 16% and Swiss-based Axpo with 5%.