20 Nov 2010
(MENAFN) Bulgaria and Qatar have signed a confidentiality deal paving the way for talks on LNG deliveries from the Gulf country, state gas company Bulgargaz said, as Sofia seeks to cut dependence on Russian gas.
Bulgaria has stepped up efforts to reduce its almost complete reliance on Russian gas by diversifying routes and supplies after a dispute between Russia and Ukraine in 2009 left it – and much of the region – without gas for weeks in freezing temperatures.
A lack of separate gas links with neighbours and the inability to reverse gas flows in pipelines that bring Russian gas to Greece and Turkey, worsened the crisis for the Balkan country.
Since then, Sofia has announced plans to link its gas network with those of Greece, Romania, Serbia and Turkey and has signed a memorandum of understanding for gas deliveries from Azerbaijan.
Under a project between Azeri state oil company Socar and Bulgaria’s Bulgartransgaz, Azeri gas would be transported via a pipeline to Georgia to be compressed and shipped by tankers to Bulgaria’s Black Sea port of Varna.
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