The TAP starts near Thessaloniki, in Greece and continues onshore all the way to the Adriatic Sea Coast, after crossing the entire territory of Albania from East to West. The offshore part of the pipeline starts near the Albanian city of Fier and crosses the Adriatic Sea to tie into Italy’s gas transportation grid operated by SNAM ReteGas. In its upstream part, TAP will interconnect with the existing DESFA pipeline system in Greece, which is linked further to the East with systems in Turkey, to secure access to supplies it has contracted in the Caspian Sea and Middle East gas-rich regions.
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