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| Countries covered: Serbia and Montenegro The natural gas system of Serbia has been developing for the past 50 years. Until October 1, 2005 the activities of natural gas exploration and production, transportation, distribution and trade were concentrated within the state-run company Naftna Industrijà Srbije. The national gas system has a transportation capacity of 6.1 billion cu m per year, of which 5.34 billion cu m for domestic consumers. The annual transportation capacity could grow to 6.8 billion cu m if the compressor station at Batajnica is increased. The high pressure system spreads on 2,135 km, and the distribution network covers 10,500 km. The Strategy for the Development of the Energy Sector in Serbia by 2015 focuses on increasing of the present transmission capacity to 6.8 billion cu m by connecting new sections to the pipeline. The total length of newly-built main and distribution pipelines will be almost 420 km. The next step towards expansion of the network will allow residential customers to join the gas distribution system. It is expected that natural gas will come to 140,000 households by 2012. The gasification of western Serbia is also laid down in the strategy. The construction of the pipeline Nis-Dimitrovgrad is another big infrastructure projects in the country with its estimated value of USD 60 mln. The National Investment Plan earmarks more than EUR 50 mln for a number of projects in the gas sector. According to preliminary estimations the natural gas consumption in Serbia will stand at 3.4 billion cu m by 2012. In the last five years natural gas had 14% in the structure of domestic energy consumption. It is expected that the share will grow to 18 % by 2015. The average number of active customers as of October 2009 is 230,718, of which 222,725 are households and 7,993 - industrial and other types of customers. The estimated annual consumption of natural gas is 1,292 cu m per household. Presently, JP Srbijagas is the gas supplier in 16 municipalities in Vojvodina and 26 municipalities in central Serbia. The major drawback of the system is its fragmentariness - 12 out of 30 licenced distributors have less than 2,000 active customers and an annual consumption of 5.0 million cu m. Serbia receives gas through Hungary at annual capacity of 510 million cu m and exports to Bosnia and Herzegovina at 80 million cu m per year, according to data by GIE - Gas Infrastructure Europe. The connection of the national gas system with Romania, linking Arad to Mokrin, has been discussed only at preliminary talks. Serbia also considers a second link with Bosnia at Novo Selo-Bijelina. Serbia’s gas network could link to the Nabucco gas pipeline either via Bulgaria along the route Dimitrovgrad-Nis, or through Romania along Arad-Mokring, or the parallel route Constanta-Trst. The alternatives for natural gas imports to Serbia include an increase of the volumes of Russian gas through Hungary, through the new gas mains MG10, or via an offtake of the Nabucco gas pipeline in Romania. The key players in the Macedonian gas sector are state-monopoly JP Srbijagas and Gazprom-controlled Yogorosgaz AD. The Energy Agency of the Republic of Serbia is the authority in charge of licencing and regulating of the activities in the natural gas sector. |
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