The tender contest to choose the contractor that will build the Chișinău-Ungheni gas pipeline will be held in the first half of September. The Romanian company Transgaz announced it fulfilled all the suspensive conditions stipulated in the contract for the sale-purchase of the Moldovan company Vestmoldtransgaz, IPN reports, with reference to the Government’s press service.

Thus, a protocol to this effect will be signed during the first week of September and the 180.2 million lei from the transaction to sell Vestmoldtransgaz will be collected. Transgaz is to finalize the construction of the Ungheni – Chișinău gas pipeline by investing over €90 million for the purpose.

The company’s organizational-legal form will be soon changed from state-owned enterprise into a limited liability company and the procurement procedures for purchasing the materials and services needed for building the gas pipeline will be staged by September 10. The construction works will start immediately after the tender procedures are completed. The Government approved the building of this facility and issued a construction authorization.

Earlier, Prime Minister Pavel Filip requested the responsible authorities to intervene and remove the impediments and to fulfil the conditions for starting the building works on time.

The contract to privatize Vestmoldtransgaz by the Romanian company Transgaz was signed on March 28 this year. The Ungheni-Chișinău gas pipeline will be 120 km long and could annually transport about 1.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Romania to Moldova.