The Tesla gas pipeline: have hopes revived?

... theoretically would run through Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. It remains only to explain who would pay for this pipeline. Skopje and Belgrade are not part of the European gas system, but they need an alternative supply route, since Russian gas still comes to them via Ukraine. The main obstacle to rapid construction of the Turkish Stream, however, is the expense of the project, especially given the difficult market conditions in Russia. The cost of the total complex of works to construct South Stream has been approaching 40 billion dollars . Gazprom has decided to hand over most of the construction of the gas transport system in Europe to national governments in order to comply with the EU’s Third Energy Package, and to reduce ...