Five companies shortlisted to build Bulgaria-Greece pipeline

Trace Hold AD

05/02/2019 13:54

SOFIA, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Five companies and consortia have
been short-listed to file bids in a 145 million euro ($165.65
million) tender to design and build a gas pipeline between
Bulgaria and Greece, data from the company overseeing delivery
of the project, ICGB, showed on Tuesday.
    The selected bidders should file their offers next month to
build the 182-km (113-mile) pipeline aimed at transporting
mainly Azeri gas to Bulgaria and reducing its almost complete
dependence on Russian gas supplies. 
    Some 11 companies filed initial bids.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N1VX418
    A consortium between two Bulgarian construction companies
and Italy's Bonatti, a joint venture between Germany's Max
Streicher and Greek Terna as well as a consortium between French
Spiecapag, a unit of Vinci  SGEF.PA , and Bulgarian Trace Group
 T57.BB  were allowed to file bids.
    Greek company J & P AVAX  AVAr.AT  and a tie-up between
China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering and Greece's Aktor were
also admitted to file bids for the pipeline Sofia hopes to
become operational in 2020.
($1 = 0.8754 euros)

 (Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova
Editing by Frances Kerry)
 ((tsvetelia.tsolova@thomsonreuters.com; +359-2-93-99-731;))