Arad–Szeged pipeline Arad–Szeged pipeline The Arad–Szeged pipeline is a natural gas pipeline from Arad in Romania to Szeged in Hungary diversifying natural gas suppliers and delivery routes for the two countries and connects the two natural gas national grids. The pipeline attempts to lessen the two country's dependence on Russian energy. The Arad–Szeged pipeline is part of the larger New European Transmission System meant to unite Central and South Eastern Europe's natural gas transmission networks. Preparations for the project started in 2008 and the intergovernmental agreement between Romania and Hungary was signed on 1 July 2008. The project is developed by the
Angoulême 42,242 inhabitants on 1 January 2009. With a communal area of 2,185 hectares, the density of population is 1,940 inhabitants per km, making it the most densely populated city in Charente and the third most densely populated city in Nouvelle-Aquitaine after La Rochelle and Poitiers. In 2008, the "Urban Unit of Angoulême", which includes eighteen communes totaled 109,553 inhabitants and its "Urban Area", which includes 80 suburban communes in the impact zone of the city, totaled 174,482 inhabitants. It brings together nearly 106,000 inhabitants within an urban conurbation which extends over from north to south. Angoulême is the most populous