Greek J&P AVAX files lowest bid to build Bulgaria-Greece gas link
23/04/2019 12:19
SOFIA, April 23 (Reuters) - Greece's J&P AVAX AVAr.AT
filed the lowest offer in a tender to design and build a gas
pipeline between Bulgaria and Greece, project manager ICGB said
on Tuesday.
The company offered 144.85 million euros ($162.94 million)
to build 182 km (113 mile) pipeline which Sofia hopes will
become operational in 2020 to transport Azeri gas to Bulgaria
and end its almost complete dependence on Russian gas supplies.
A consortium of two Bulgarian companies and Italy's Bonatti,
which also submitted an offer in the tender, offered 229.3
million euros.
($1 = 0.8890 euros)
(Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova and Angel Krasimirov; editing
by David Evans)
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