Kiril Temelkov is replacing Ivan Drenovichki at the post of CEO of the Bulgartransgaz company, the Bulgarian Energy Holding, BEH, announced Thursday.

Ivan Drenovichki, executive director of Bulgartransgaz, was removed from the position one year and a half after taking office.

Temelkov, 37, has graduated from the University of National and World Economy in Sofia with a major in Economy and Management of Trade.

He has extensive experience in the energy sector and has worked for Bulgargaz and Bulgartransgaz, where he has been the Head of the Trade Department from 2000 to 2008.

Since May, 2010, Temelkov is the Bulgarian representative at the Nabucco gas pipeline and manager of Nabucco Gaz Pipeline Bulgaria.

State-owned Bulgartransgaz is a natural gas transmission and storage system operator and a subsidiary of BEH.

Bulgartransgaz is part of a gas grid interconnection project with Romania, which, according to the Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, Traicho Traikov, is to be completed by mid-2012.

The gas transmission operator was involved in an argument with private natural gas supplier Overgas after denying the Bulgarian-Russian firm access to its pipeline grid.

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