page_title: South Stream
section_title: Route
hierarchical_section_title: South Stream / Route
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the major existing and proposed russian natural gas transportation pipelines to europe.
context_page_description: South Stream was a pipeline project to transport natural gas of the Russian Federation through the Black Sea to Bulgaria and through Serbia, Hungary and Slovenia further to Austria.
  Coincidentally with Russia's annexation of Crimea, after having been seven years in the talks and works with five EU member states, the project was suddenly found in non-compliance with European Union's competition and energy legislation, in particular the Third Energy Package, which stipulates the separation of companies' generation and sale operations from their transmission networks.
  It was seen as rival to the Nabucco pipeline project, which was abandoned in favor of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline. Unlike South Stream, TAP is fully compliant with EU legislation by way of having obtained EU Third Party Access Exemption.
  Construction of the Russian onshore facilities for the South Stream pipeline started in December 2012. The project was cancelled by Russia in December 2014 following obstacles from Bulgaria and the EU, the 2014 Crimean crisis, and the imposition of European sanctions on Russia. The project has been replaced by proposals of Turkish Stream and Tesla pipeline.
context_section_description: The pipeline was to consist of the Russian onshore pipeline, the Black Sea section and pipelines in the South- East Europe. The Russian onshore section would have run from the Pochinki compressor station to the Russkaya compressor station near Anapa.  The 931-kilometre (578 mi) long offshore section was to run from the Russkaya compressor station through the Black Sea to Galata near Varna, Bulgaria.  Because of the Russia–Ukraine gas disputes, the pipeline was to be routed through Turkey's waters to avoid the exclusive economic zone of Ukraine.  At the same time Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea would have allowed more direct route through the Crimean waters.
  The 1,455-kilometre (904 mi) long onshore section was to start from Varna and run to Pleven.  From there, the original southwestern route was to continue through Greece and Ionian Sea to southern Italy.  However, this route was abandoned.  The newer northwestern route would have continued from Pleven to Serbia. In Serbia, then running through Zaječar and Paraćin to Čenta. From Čenta the main pipeline would have continued in direction of Gospođinci while branch-off line would run to Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.  Srbijagas planned to construct along Sava river a 480-kilometre (300 mi) long branch pipeline with a capacity of 1.2 billion cubic metres (42 billion cubic feet) to Banja Luka and Sarajevo.  It was also surmised that Montenegro could have connected to the pipeline.
  Before reaching Gospođinci, the main line was to split. One route would continue through Serbia and Hungary to Baumgarten an der March in Austria. Another route would have continued through Gospođinci and Bački Breg also to Hungary with branch-off to Croatia. In Hungary it would have gone through Hercegszántó and Tornyiszentmiklós to Slovenia and further in direction of Tarvisio to supply northern Italy.
caption: Major existing and planned natural gas pipelines supplying Russian gas to Europe in 2012.
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