Tsakona Arch Bridge


The Tsakona Arch Bridge is one of the world's longest multi-span arch bridge.

It crosses the Tsakona Valley and it spans a dangerous location near Megalopoli, where the last decades there are landslides.


The Tsakona Arch Bridge, with length of 490 meters, is the last work that remains to complete the section Paradeisia – Tsakona axis Tripolis – Kalamata (made by the State and will be delivered to the consortium Moreas).

As stated in the "Courage" the project leader Nikos Don, this bridge is one of the most difficult engineering projects, after the Rio-Antirrio bridge and cost a total of 15 million euros, with the bypass that operates today.


The bridge is supported at three points: one at each end (abutments) and one that is closer to the top of pier.

This last is the most important: it is basically a giant 'prefab', which will ensure the stability of the bridge.

From the pier start the arch of the bridge, a maximum height of 30 meters, which leads to the opposite edge.

The two arches, one on each side, supported the metal part of the bridge on which the road is located.


Its construction started in 2008 and was opened for traffic 

in February 2016.


LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas


LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas (ЛУКОЙЛ Нефтохим Бургас), based in Burgas, Bulgaria, is the largest oil refinery in Southeastern Europe and the largest industrial enterprise in Bulgaria.

Owned by Russian oil giant LUKOIL, the refinery has the biggest contribution among the privately owned enterprises to the country's GDP and to the state budget revenues. LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas is the leading producer and supplier of liquid fuels, petrochemicals and polymers for Bulgaria and the region and one of the leading companies in its field in Europe.





The LUKOIL Neftochim refinery

  • 1 Products
    • 1.1 Fuels
    • 1.2 Other products
    • 1.3 Polymers

Products Fuels


LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas AD produces the following petrochemical products:


  • Motor gasoline А-92 /export outside the EU/
  • Motor gasoline А-95 under EN-228 /Euro-5/
  • Motor gasoline А-98 under EN-228 /Euro-5/
  • Low octane gasoline /LOG/
  • Diesel fuel without bio component under EN-590 /Euro-5/
  • Diesel fuel with bio component B4 under EN-590 /Euro-5/
  • Gas oil 0,1% S
  • Jet fuel А-1
  • Fuel oil
  • Bitumen
  • Vacuum residue



Other products
  • Propane-butane under EN-589.
  • Process Sulfur (palletized and "lumps")

Polymers
  • Polypropylene


Workplace

LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas employs more than 2,500 people, the average salary being the highest among industrial companies in the country.

The refinery has operated entirely on self-produced electric power since 23 May 2000 and uses water from the nearby Lake Mandrensko.