A pipeline consortium slated to bring non-Russian natural gas through southern Europe said it awarded contracts for pipeline construction in Greece and Albania. A joint venture formed by Italian engineering company Bonatti and its Greek counterpart, J&P AVAX, secured two contracts for pipelines that will run through northern Greece to the Albanian border. French company SPIECAPAG won the deal to build pipelines though the region and on to the Turkish border. The contracts are for the Trans-Adriatic pipeline, which will start delivering gas from the Shah Deniz gas project offshore Azerbaijan to European consumers in 2019. TAP would connect to the Trans-Anatolian natural gas project running through Turkey to the Greek border. […]