All of the heating utility companies in Bulgarian cities are already working on oil because of the natural gas shortage which resulted from the Russia-Ukraine gas prices dispute.

The public heating utility in Bulgaria's northern city of Pleven was the last to finally switch from gas to oil Monday afternoon.

The Crisis Management Director at Bulgaria's Emergency Situations Ministry Atanas Saykov announced that the loading of the country's electricity network Monday night was 6 550 MW, and the electricity exports amounted to 632 MW. The network can sustain a loading of up to 7 500 MW.

Saykov also announced that the extracting of natural gas at the Galata Field close to Varna was terminated briefly during the day because of a broken compressor, but had been resumed later.

The Galata deposit provides about 8 100 cubic meters of gas daily. Saykov said the gas reserves at the Chiren Storage Facility had been reduced to 523 million cubic meters.

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