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Bulgaria-Serbia gas interconnector should be operational in 2022

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The gas link Bulgaria - Serbia should start operating in 2022. This was confirmed by energy ministers Temenuzhka Petkova and Aleksandar Antić after talks held in Belgrade. Construction of necessary infrastructure is key to achieving energy security and competition in gas supplies for the Southeast European region, the two ministers said. Minister Petkova told her counterpart about the development of the Greece-Bulgaria connector, which is due to start working next year and secure agreed 1 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year from the Shah Deniz 2 deposit in Azerbaijan.




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