Bulgaria, Shell sign Black Sea off-shore oil and gas exploration contract
Royal Dutch Shell signed a contract on February 23 to explore for oil and gas in Bulgaria’s Black Sea economic
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Bulgarian President: Cyprus can contribute to energy diversification in South Eastern Europe
Cyprus can contribute to the energy diversification of South Eastern Europe, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said in Sofia on February
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EC takes aim at Russia with ‘energy security’ package
The European Commission published a package of proposals on February 16 meant to increase the bloc’s energy security in case
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Bulgarian President calls for starting construction of European Energy Union from the Balkans
The construction of the European Energy Union is crucial to deepening the European integration process and increasing the energy security
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Bulgaria renewable energy production down in 2014, still above 2020 target – Eurostat
Nine European Union member states, Bulgaria among them, had exceeded their renewable energy targets for 2020 in 2014, the bloc’s
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Bulgaria’s state energy holding to replace CEO
Bulgaria’s Energy Ministry said on February 9 that it would ask the board of directors at the Bulgarian Energy Holding
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Lukoil sells filling stations in Poland, Central Europe
Russia’s privately-owned fuel giant Lukoil agreed to sell more than 230 filling stations located in Poland, Lithuania and Latvia to
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Bulgarian MPs reject motion to resurrect South Stream gas pipeline project
Bulgaria’s Parliament rejected on February 3 a motion tabled by ultra-nationalist party Ataka, which called for resuming construction on the
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National power grids increasingly targeted in cyber attacks
Ukraine’s electric power grid is once again under cyberattack, just one month after a similar incident successfully brought down portions
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