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The Bulgarian government has given the nod to the Nabucco consortium's Environmental Impact Assessment for the portion of the pipeline in that country. In a statement, the pipeline consortium hailed this as "another important milestone." The report will be available on Nabucco's website from later today.
Russian energy company Gazprom met Bulgarian executives to discuss implementation of the South Stream gas pipeline. Gazprom's chief executive officer, Alexei Miller, met Dimitar Gogov, of Bulgarian gas company Bulargaz, in Moscow last week. Both sides, Gazprom said in a statement, "laid stress...
Bulgarian domestic natural gas production has witnessed a significant increase according to announcements made by the Ministry of Energy. Production is expected to reach 490 million cubic metres (mcm) in 2012, compared to 440 mcm the year previous. Moreover, with the Devenci reserves now in production...
Part one of Michael LaBelle's two part series The ability to break away from dependency means redefining relationships. For shale gas this redefinition must include the economic, social and institutional advantages and disadvantageous. Environmental arguments are not the only element for acceptance...
To hear some talk, Bulgaria has sold itself down the river; for others, the country has just pulled off a masterstroke. Either way, Sofia’s recent signing of a final agreement with Gazprom for the South Stream pipeline is certainly a significant step. It paves the way for the giant pipeline to...
There are different ways to assess risk in the energy sector. In the broad swath of Eastern Europe this usually means proximity and dependency on Russian controlled gas. When it comes to the new technology of hydraulic fracturing of shale rock deposits, this is usually in terms of environmental impact.
The negotiating dance between Bulgaria and Gazprom over the pricing of long-term gas deliveries came to a conclusion today in Sofia with the signing of two contracts. The two parties signed the Final Investment Decision to build the Bulgarian section of South Stream pipeline, together with a new gas...
TransAtlantic Petroleum plans to extract gas from a field in north-western Bulgaria after securing a 35-year concession. The Bulgarian government announced the licensing Wednesday. Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev said he expected the company to start producing gas in the middle of next year at...
Energy ministers from countries involved in the construction of the Nabucco West gas pipeline—Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria—and their counterpart from Azerbaijan, met in Vienna on 8 October to support the project politically. The aim of the pipeline is to supply Eastern and...
The Bulgarian section of the Nabucco pipeline has formally entered into the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Approval phase, the Nabucco National Company has announced. The documentation relating to the EIA procedure was submitted to the Ministry of Environment in the capital, Sofia, on...
