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Bulgaria buys expensive Russian gas from intermediaries

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State-owned company "Bulgargaz" has bought Russian gas again, but through an intermediary at a higher price, the chairman of the energy regulator, Ivan Ivanov, has told BNT. There are no documents for the unloading of 7 tankers with liquefied gas, as indicated by ex-prime minister Kiril Petkov, Ivanov added and clarified that there were enough tankers with LNG in the Eastern Mediterranean, but there were not enough unloading capacities in Greece or Turkey. There was no reserved capacity for transfer to Bulgaria, too.

Chairman of the Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association, Vassil Velev, told BNR that the business wants compensation from the state for the high prices of electricity and gas, as well as security in supplies as just 28% of the blue fuel needed by the country has been agreed.




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