April 5 (SeeNews) - Croatia's gas transmission system operator Plinacro said on Friday it will get a 533.08 million euro ($578 million) grant for a project to improve the national gas supply infrastructure under the European Union-sponsored national recovery and resilience plan.
The funding will be used for the construction of four pipelines to transport natural gas from the existing liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on Krk to neighbouring Slovenia, Hungary and other countries in southeast Europe, Plinacro said in a press release.
The four pipelines are the 58-kilometre Zlobin-Bosiljevo, the 101-kilometre Bosiljevo-Sisak, the 21-kilometre Kozarac-Sisak and the 36-kilometre Zabok-Lucko gas links. Their construction will boost the capacity of Plinacro's pipelines servicing the LNG terminal from 2.9 billion cubic metres to 6.1 billion per year.
The floating LNG terminal on the Krk island started operating in January 2021. It delivers natural gas to the Croatian national transmission network, which is connected to fellow EU member states Slovenia, Italy and Hungary, as well as to non-EU members Serbia and Montenegro.
($ = 0.923 euro)