Transgaz announced that it has opened the Jupa natural gas compression plant, part of the BRUA project. The BRUA project aims to ensure access to new gas sources, as well as facilitating the transport of Caspian gas to the markets of Central and Eastern Europe.

The project provides bi-directional transport capacity of 1.5 billion cubic meters per year in / from Bulgaria, and 4.4 billion cubic meters per year in / from Hungary.

The BRUA Phase 1 project consists of the achievement of several objectives, such as a pipeline between Podişor – Recaş in length of 479 km and 3 natural gas compression stations (STC Podişor, STC Bibeşti and STC Jupa), each station being equipped with two compression aggregates.