Bulgaria Energy Min Denies 'Plans to Circumvent Ukraine Gas Routes'

Business » ENERGY | January 30, 2016, Saturday // 14:42
Bulgaria: Bulgaria Energy Min Denies 'Plans to Circumvent Ukraine Gas Routes' A file photo of the Bulgaria-Russia Intergovernmental Committee's meeting on January 28, 2016. Photo BGNES

The Balkan gas hub project put forward by Bulgaria is not aimed at going around Ukraine's gas transportation network, Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova said on Saturday.

"I dare say [our concept of Balkan[ is really suffessful and feasible, considering the advantage which Bulgaria has to realize such a project," Petkova told Darik Radio in an interview, citing the country's "geographic location" and "the well-developed gas transportation infrastructure".

Petkova confirmed that Russia is viewed as "one of the potential sources of gas for the hub," but made clear the project will be designed to fully comply with the EU's Third Energy Package.

"We want all countries to be on equal footing, no countries to be circumvented in any way," she warned, in relation to reports in some media outlets that the hub was designed to go around Ukraine.

Her comments come days after the Bulgarian-Russian intergovernmental committee's meeting, the first one in five years, at which energy and cooperation was discussed alongside options to boost bilateral trade.

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