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Second electricity distributor files arbitration claim against Bulgaria

June 8, 2015June 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Czech-owned Energo-Pro became the second electricity distribution firm to file an arbitration claim against Bulgaria with the World Bank’s arbitration

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Business 

Last foreign player pulls out of Polish shale gas

June 8, 2015 The Warsaw Voice energy, Poland

US energy company ConocoPhillips has said it is stopping exploration for shale gas in Poland amid unsatisfactory results, the last

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Serbian leader wants to reduce Russian gas dependency

June 6, 2015 VOANews energy, Serbia

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic tells VOA that his country is ready to accept U.S. calls to reduce dependency on

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Business 

Bulgaria and Serbia agree to accelerate work on gas interconnector plan

June 4, 2015June 4, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Serbia

Bulgaria and Serbia have undertaken to work faster on building gas interconnectors, Bulgaria’s Economy Ministry said at the close of

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Bulgaria’s competition watchdog fines electricity distributors 1.17M leva over access to utility poles

June 2, 2015June 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on June 2 that it has fined the country’s three electricity distribution

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Business 

Bulgaria Customs Agency to investigate Lukoil refinery

June 1, 2015June 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Customs Agency has started an audit of the Neftochim oil refinery, owned by Russian oil conglomerate Lukoil, to investigate

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Business 

Russian exec says Chevron could help revive Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline – report

May 26, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency energy

US oil firm Chevron has shown interest in reviving the proposed Bourgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline, reports in Russian media said on

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Europe 

Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania sign gas grids interconnection memorandum

May 22, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia

Foreign ministers from four Eastern European countries – Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania – signed a memorandum on cooperation in

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Russia’s Lukoil opens new $1.5B unit at Bulgarian refinery

May 20, 2015May 20, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Russian oil company Lukoil opened a new facility to process heavy residue at the Neftochim refinery in the Bulgarian city

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