The Arad–Szeged pipeline is a

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from Arad in

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

to Szeged in

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

diversifying natural gas suppliers and delivery routes for the two countries and connects the two natural gas national grids. The pipeline attempts to lessen the two country's dependence on Russian energy. The Arad–Szeged pipeline is part of the larger

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meant to unite

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and

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's natural gas transmission networks. Preparations for the project started in 2008 and the intergovernmental agreement between

and

was signed on 1 July 2008. The project is developed by the consortium of two companies. The final investment decision was made at the end of 2008. The pipeline is expected to be operational by September 2010 and it will carry 4.4 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year.

History

The agreement between Romanian gas company

Transgaz Transgaz is a state-owned company, which is the technical operator of the national natural gas transmission system in Romania. The company handled in 2017 a quantity of 12.87 billion m³ of natural gas. The company has a total transport capacity ...

and Hungarian oil and gas company MOL was signed on 1 July 2008. The intergovernmental agreement to build a natural gas pipeline between countries was signed in May 2010 in Arad. The pipeline was supposed to be inaugurated on 29 July 2010 but was postponed until September due to construction issues on the Hungarian side. The pipeline is supposed to be inaugurated by the

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Günther Oettinger.

Technical description

The length of the Romanian section is . The length of Hungarian section is . The diameter of pipeline is and the capacity is 4.4 billion cubic meter (bcm) of natural gas per annum. The total cost of the pipeline was around €68 million (US$85 million) and the construction cost was 48% for the Romanian section and 52% for the Hungarian section. The two sections meet near the Hungarian/Romanian border at

Csanádpalota Csanádpalota (in ro, Palatul Cenad) is a town in the Makó-region of Csongrád county, in Hungary's Southern Great Plain. Geography Csanádpalota covers an area of and has a population of 3286 people (2002). It is located close to the Romanian ...

Nădlac Nădlac (; sk, Nadlak; hu, Nagylak) is a town in western Romania, Arad County. A former part of the town lies across the border with Hungary; this village is called Nagylak. An international border town, Nădlac is the main border crossing into ...

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History

Technical description

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