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South Stream gas pipeline design capacity: 63 billion cubic meters per annum.
Total length of the offshore pipeline section: 900 kilometers.
Maximum pipeline depth in the Black Sea: 2,250 meters.
Russia signed intergovernmental agreements with:
- Bulgaria – January 18, 2008;
- Serbia – January 25, 2008;
- Hungary – February 28, 2008;
- Greece – April 29, 2008;
- Slovenia – November 14, 2009;
- Croatia – March 2, 2010;
- Austria – April 24, 2010.
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BELGRADE -- The start of the South Stream pipeline section through Serbia, one of the largest investments in the country in several decades, will formally begin on Sunday.
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The start of the work will be marked by welding the first two pipes in Šajkaš, northern Serbia, but the work on the ground will begin in February next year.
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić, Prime Minister Ivica Dačić, Russia's Energy Minister Alexander Novak and Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller will be at the formal ceremony marking the start of the construction.
Three agreements related to the pipeline will be signed at the event, on transport, funding and declaring the section through Serbia a project of national interest.
The construction of the 421 km long section through Serbia - an investment worth over EUR 1.9 billion - will provide work for 25,000 people directly and indirectly for another 100,000 employees of Serbian companies, Tanjug reported.
The location and construction permits have been issued, and the tenders for the contractor will be invited by mid-December 2013.
The construction will be done the joint venture South Stream Serbia, of which Gazprom owns 51 percent and Srbijagas 49.
The construction of the pipeline in Serbia will take two years.
According to Serbia's Minister of Energy Zorana Mihajlović, "South Stream is one of the largest investments in Europe and the central infrastructure project of the region, which will enable Serbia to better protect its political, economic and energy interests."
South Stream will raise Serbia's GDP by at least five percent, she pointed out.
It will make Serbia the energy hub of the region, provide energy security and allow it to build power stations that work on natural gas.
South Stream will enter Serbia from Bulgaria, near the eastern town of Zaječar, and exit near Subotica, in the north. There will be two junctions, one leading to Croatia and the other to the Serb Republic (RS) in Bosnia. Another "could lead to Macedonia and Kosovo," said Tanjug.
The pipeline's capacity in Serbia will be 41 billion cubic metres of gas per year, of which Serbia will get around five billion cubic metres at first.
South Stream to improve international energy security - Putin
Russia's President Vladimir Putin sent a greeting to participants and guests of the official ceremony, devoted to beginning of construction of a South Stream part in the territory of the Republic of Serbia, where he stressed construction of the gas pipeline would make a big input in improvement of the international energy security, the Kremlin's press service said on Sunday.
The official beginning of the South Stream's construction is due later on the day.
"It is an important event not only for Serbia and the Balkan Peninsula countries, but for the entire European continent," the president's greeting reads.
"South Stream will unite along the bottom of the Black Sea Russia's biggest natural gas deposits will major markets in south-eastern Europe," Putin said. "It will assure reliable supplies of the fuel to the European consumers without risks related to transit. It will make a big input in improvement of the international energy security."
"The unprecedentedly large construction of the gas pipeline will attract to Serbia and other countries in the region major investments, will offer new jobs, will favour further social and economic development."
"With the expanding and modernisation of is gas transporting system, the Republic of Serbia will become Europe's key energy centre."
"The cooperation between Russia and Serbia in the South Stream project fits logically into the fruitful partnership between our countries, based on historic traditions of friendships between the people of Russia and Serbia."
Gazprom implements the South Stream's construction project, where the line will go across the Black Sea to the countries of southern and central Europe to diversify supplies of the natural gas to Europe and to lower the dependence on transit countries. Russia has signed governmental agreements with Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Greece, Slovenia, Chroatia and Austria on the land part of the pipeline. South Stream will cross the territory of Bulgaria from the Black Sea /Varna port/ to the border with Serbia from east to west, and will make 540.8 kilometres. The projected production over the first year will be 16 billion cubic metres to reach later on 63 billion cubic metres a year. The sea part of South Stream, which will deliver the Russian natural gas to southern Europe, is over 900 kilometres long.