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The gas supply to Bulgaria was reduced after a blast in Moldova. Photo by BGNES
Russian gas supplies to Bulgaria have been restored to 80% of normal volumes two days after an explosion on a Moldovan section of a major pipeline, a senior official at Bulgarian gas monopoly Bulgargaz said on Friday.
Dimitar Gogov, executive director of Bulgargaz, announced that the company is being delivered 6 million cubic meters of gas per day.
Full supplies to Bulgaria are expected to be resumed in a day or two.
Meanwhile a gas official said that repair works to the ruptured pipeline carrying Russian gas to the Balkans will take three days.
The blast occurred in Moldova's separatist region of Transdniestria on the Ananyev-Tiraspol-Izmail pipeline running from Russia via Ukraine and Moldova to the Balkans.
The pipeline delivers gas to Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey.
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