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Two candidates have submitted bids to design and build the gas inter-connector pipeline between Bulgaria and Greece, which project company ICBG opened on April 2. A total of five bidders […]
Greek energy companies are showing strong interest in the interconnection and expansion of the gas, electricity and oil networks between Greece and the Republic of North Macedonia, as well as […]
Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said said that it has completed its latest analysis of the petrol and diesel fuel market, its third in seven years, and found […]
Bulgaria’s Energy Ministry has formally invited letters of interest in the tender to pick a strategic investor for the restart of the Belene nuclear power plant. As part of the […]
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his Bulgarian counterpart Boiko Borissov discussed their respective priorities on their energy agendas in talks in Sofia on March 4. Against a background of […]
Berlin has handled the dispute over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with unilateralism and clumsiness worthy of US President Donald Trump. On February 8, the EU Committee of Permanent […]
Bulgaria’s Government gave its approval on February 20 for Spanish energy company Repsol to acquire a 20 per cent stake in the oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) rights […]
Bulgaria’s gas grid operator Bulgartransgaz has finalised the open season process for the planned expansion of the country’s gas transit capacity, widely seen as the first leg of the land […]
Bulgaria’s Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova said on January 14 that she was hopeful that the tender to pick a strategic investor for the restart of the Belene nuclear power plant […]
Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on December 19 the allocation of 76.2 million leva, or about 39 million euro, in EU funds for the construction of the Greece-Bulgaria gas inter-connector pipeline. The […]
