Athens: Defsa SA, which operates Greece's natural gas transmission system, will invite bids in the next few days for the construction of a 159-kilometre high-pressure gas pipeline, the country's Energy Ministry said.
Work on the 130 million-euro (Dh624 million) project in the southern Peloponnese region is expected to begin early next year, with completion scheduled for mid-2012, the ministry said yesterday in an e-mailed statement. The pipeline's completion date has been fixed to allow Public Power Corporation SA, Greece's largest electricity producer, to inaugurate a power station fired by natural gas in the city of Megalopolis, according to the statement.
The project, which is partly funded by the European Union, is designed to make possible expansion of the pipeline to other parts of the Peloponnese, the ministry said.
