Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR has assured the Bulgarian authorities that the first gas deliveries to Bulgaria can be made in 2020, Bulgaria’s Deputy Minister of Energy Zhecho Stankov announced after a meeting with the management of SOCAR in Baku. The new infrastructure of the Southern Gas Corridor will start functioning in 2020. On the other hand, we have been informing our Azerbaijani partners on a monthly basis about the state of construction of the gas interconnection between Bulgaria and Greece, Deputy Minister Stankov further said. That country has assured us that in 2020 Bulgaria will start receiving through the Southern Gas Corridor 1 billion cubic meters of gas. Zhecho Stankov also pointed out that after 2023 Bulgaria will have the opportunity to import higher gas quantities from Azerbaijan from other gas deposits. So far Bulgargaz signed a contract for the purchase of 1 billion cubic meters of gas per year from Shah Deniz 2 gas field.
The new Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport Grozdan Karadajov has accepted the resignations of the heads of the National Railway Infrastructure Company Stoyan Stoyanov and of BDZ Freight Transport Company Hristiyan Krastev. The resignations..
37.4% of adult Bulgarians strongly agree with the formula of the new government. Another 21.4% accept it, but not strongly. 16.5% somewhat disagree and 20.8% disagree. The rest find it difficult to answer. Thus, the government of Rosen Zhelyazkov,..
Stanislas Stoyanov, a member of the European Parliament from Vazrazhdane, has been elected chair of the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) political group within the European Parliament, according to a statement from the Vazrazhdane press office...
A global campaign focusing on the right of every child to grow up in a family environment has been launched in Sofia on the initiative of the UK..
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On the basis of December inflation data published yesterday by Eurostat, the Institute for Market Economics (IME) forecasts that the country could join..
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