[1][2][3] The pipeline was inaugurated in 2014 and connected Iași with the Moldovan town of Ungheni.
It was extended to the capital Chișinău in 2019, with the compressor stations being put into operation in 2021.
It cost Romania's Transgaz state-owned company about 150 million euros.
[3] It supplies gas from Romania to Moldova through a reverse flow of the Trans-Balkan pipeline.
The pipeline permitted Moldova to obtain gas from the European market, allowing it to overcome the crisis.