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Bulgaria no longer concerned over South Stream's environmental impactBulgaria’s Ministry of Environment and Waters has approved the ecological risk assessment report for the South Stream project. The South Stream gas pipeline will connect Russia and the Balkans through the Black Sea, pumping...
Natural Gas Europe was pleased to have the opportunity to speak with Tomasz Daborowski of the OSW (Centre for Eastern Studies) on shale gas developments in Bulgaria. Mr. Daborowski is co-author of the recent work Shale gas in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Romania. Political context - legal status...
The rewards of shale gas are starting to outweigh the potential risks of getting the energy source out of the ground for a number of European countries. Reserves of the gas are now thought to be much larger in some states than previously estimated. In others, there is growing concern over the dominance...
The recent international Black Sea Oil & Gas Forum held in Bulgaria highlighted culminations surrounding natural gas trade and investments in the region, which are gaining strong pace. The president of the Bulgarian energy regulatory authority, Mrs. Evgenia Haritonova, pointed...
With only a few months left until the Shah Deniz consortium chooses between Nabucco West and the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline for sending Caspian gas to Europe, attention among energy pundits is increasingly turning elsewhere. Although the Shah Deniz chapter is finally closing, the story does not end there.
When a European traveller arrived at the Black Sea city of Trabzon in 1878 after months in the wild Anatolian interior, he asked a local if he could find some long-absent signs of civilisation in the city.“Of course”, the local replied, “Trabzon is Europe!”* Such a claim would...
Way back when, Bulgaria had a very strong history of oil and gas E&P. The country had a great oil and gas business, but new exploration and development has been light since the fall of communism in 1989. "Some of the largest onshore oil and gas fields in the country are not too far away from our...
Bulgaria has not changed its stance on hydraulic fracturing, the country's Energy Minister has said. According to agencies, Delyan Dobrev told a conference that a national moratorium on fracking could remain in place 'for years' if the authorities and public wre not convinced of the safety of the extractive...
In a new minority staff report for the US Senate's committee on foreign relations, the writers noted that “Russia’s Gazprom has been forced to change its domestic strategy, including abandoning its flagship Shtokman project in the Arctic, and it has had to contend with plummeting market value...
The companies sponsoring the Nabucco pipeline have agreed to give Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz gas group a stake in the pipeline, boosting its prospects against the rival Trans-Adriatic (TAP) project. The Shah Deniz II consortium, which has already signed a funding deal with the rival TAP, has said its acquisition...
