In three years, Romania will be the number one gas producer in Europe, claims Sebastian Burduja. What is the Minister of Energy relying on?

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From 2027, Romania will double its gas production, Friday evening, September 6, the Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja, adding that our country will be the number one producer in the EU.

“The degree of filling in the warehouses is the best it has ever been – 95%, over three billion cubic meters, with about 180 million cubic meters, more than last year, when we broke any record anyway”, he explained Burduja for Antenna 3 CNN.

Asked where we get gas from, the minister said that from domestic production.

“Romania, today, with what it produces on land and what Black Sea Oil & Gas produces in the Black Sea, but close to the shore, we manage to cover domestic consumption”, explained Burduja.

He also added that “we do not import gas from Russia”.

“We do not import gas from Russia. The companies that resort to imports, and if they do, and it is possible to do it, they did this last winter as well, they do not do it because we do not have gas in the warehouses, but because on certain days or periods it is cheaper to import than to extract from the deposits and use that gas. What matters is that we have energy independence on gas, we manage with what we have, and from 2027, Neptun Deep is on the chart, we will double our gas production and we will be the number one producer in the EU”, said Sebastian Burduja.

The minister also explained that “the priority of the entire Government is to give added value to this gas, and the first step is to transform it into electricity”.

“We have the thermal power plant in Iernut, which will be completed at least half this year and the other half next year. We have a private investment in Mintia, where there was a thermal power plant based on coal and we found an investor who is building the largest gas power plant in Europe. 2026 is the assumed deadline. We have two investments financed from the Oltenia Energy Complex, which is looking to get a new life. We are talking about Şalnița, plus some CETs of about 3,500 megawatts on gas, which Romania should have in the next two, three years”, concluded the Minister of Energy.