With Romania to double natural gas production by 2025, Moldova is building a 100 km, $140 million gas pipeline to improve gas connections with Romania,

With Romania to double natural gas production by 2025, Moldova is building a 100 km, $140 million gas pipeline to improve gas connections with Romania, Ukrinform reports. Romania’s Transgaz is building a pipeline with an annual capacity of 1.5 billion cubic meters, more than Moldova’s annual consumption. Designed to bring gas from Romania’s new Black Sea fields, under development by Exxon Mobil and OMV Petrom, the new pipeline will run from Ungheni, a Moldovan border city, east to Chisinau, the capital. The new pipeline could be ready by the end of this year, when Ukraine’s gas transit contract with Gazprom expires. Currently, most of Moldova’s gas comes from Russia.