TAP Announces Start of Road Construction in Albania

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) announced on Friday the start of construction and rehabilitation work on access roads and bridges along the pipeline’s route in Albania. 

‘The occasion was marked by an inauguration ceremony near the town of Çorovoda, attended by the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, Minister of Energy and Industry Damian Gjiknuri, and TAP Managing Director Ian Bradshaw’ reads a note released by TAP. 

According to Albanian officials, TAP will stimulate other foreign investments in the country.

“TAP aims to build a modern pipeline that will safely deliver Caspian gas to Europe in early 2020. The construction of access roads and bridges in Albania is critical to our project’s progress” TAP Managing Director Ian Bradshaw commented.

The company confirmed that work is expected to be completed during 2016, while the main construction of the pipeline will start in summer 2016.

The TAP pipeline will transport natural gas from the giant Shah Deniz II field in Azerbaijan to Europe. The approximately 870 km long pipeline will connect with the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) at the Turkish-Greek border at Kipoi, cross Greece and Albania and the Adriatic Sea, before coming ashore in Southern Italy.