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Total-led consortium to postpone drilling for gas on Bulgarian sea shelf – reports

December 16, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency energy

A consortium led by French oil firm Total has said that it would delay the start of drilling gas wells

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Bulgaria 

Dialogue with Russia on South Stream must continue, Merkel tells Bulgarian PM Borissov

December 15, 2014December 17, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, energy, South Stream

The European Union has not given up on the South Stream gas pipeline project and therefore the dialogue with Russia

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Europe 

Chevron pulls out of gas extraction in western Ukraine

December 15, 2014December 15, 2014 The Kyiv Post energy, Ukraine

Global Energy giant Chevron terminated its contract with Ukraine to extract shale gas in western Ukraine after trying for more

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Bulgaria 

European common energy market, energy union are priorities for Bulgaria – Foreign Minister

December 14, 2014December 14, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency energy

The creation of a European common energy market and an energy union is one of Bulgaria’s key priorities, Foreign Minister

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Business 

Russia-Turkey pipeline has economic, strategic motives

December 11, 2014May 10, 2024 Dorian Jones of VOANews energy, Russia, South Stream, Turkey

Russia’s decision to cancel a gas pipeline to Bulgaria in preference to Turkey is being heralded as an important victory

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to offer South Stream restart plan

December 11, 2014December 13, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, energy, Russia, South Stream

Bulgaria intends to offer the European Commission a plan that would lead to the resuscitation of the South Stream pipeline,

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Business 

Bulgaria, Greece, Romania to link up gas grids in ‘vertical corridor’

December 10, 2014December 10, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Greece, Romania, South Stream

The European Union will continue to focus on building up gas grid connections between member states in the wake of

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Europe 

Ukraine’s power plants working at minimum capacity because of coal shortage

December 7, 2014 The Kyiv Post energy, Ukraine

Ukraine is obviously short of coal, the country’s newly-appointed Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn told a December 5 news conference in Kyiv. There

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Europe 

Turkey, Greece to tackle energy dispute

December 5, 2014 Dorian Jones of VOANews energy, Greece, Turkey

Turkey’s prime minister is set to visit Greece on Friday as tensions swell among regional neighbors over energy deposits in

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