Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said the country is ready to receive an additional volume of natural gas from Azerbaijan and transport it to Romania, Hungary and Slovakia. He announced this at a briefing. interfax.
“We are ready to transport additional volumes of Azerbaijani gas by combining the capabilities and efforts of gas pipeline operators in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia. Now the decision is yours,” he said.
The agreement on cooperation in the field of natural gas signed between Turkey and Bulgaria, caused Cautious response in Europe. A columnist for the Turkish newspaper Dünya Kerim Ülker writes that the European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET) draws attention to the possible risks of discrimination against fuel consumers.
This agreement includes the transport of approximately 1.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year from Turkey to Bulgaria. In this case, the maturity of the transaction will be 13 years specified in the note.