Bulgaria’s competition watchdog fines state gas utility 23.4M leva
Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) has fined the state gas utility Bulgargaz a record 23.4 million leva (about
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Bulgaria’s competition watchdog levies new charges on electricity distributors
Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) levied new charges of unfair trade practices against the country’s three private electricity
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OMV Petrom finds new oil reserves along the Black Sea coast
OMV Petrom, a company controlled by the Austrian group OMV, announced that it had discovered new reserves of oil in shallow
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Romania expects to be energy independent despite Ukraine crisis
Romania is expected to achieve energy independence by the end of the decade, due to shale gas and alternative energy
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Europe considers fracking to cut Russian gas imports
The political crisis in Ukraine, including its dispute with Moscow over the flow of Russian natural gas, has forced many
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Gazprom CEO Miller to visit Croatia
The head of Russian energy company Gazprom, Alexei Miller, will arrive for an official visit to Croatia on July 9,
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In Serbia, Bulgarian FM insists South Stream will resume in a few weeks time
Kristian Vigenin, foreign minister in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government that will resign within the next couple of weeks, has
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Greece lowers tax to lure oil and gas explorers
A two-day event kicked off in London on July 1 where Greece presented opportunities of oil exploitation in the Ionian and
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Bulgaria utilities regulator announces electricity price hike
Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) said on June 30 that it approved higher prices for end-consumers starting
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