The South Stream gas pipeline remains a project of strategic importance for Bulgaria, as the pipeline is intended to bring Siberian gas to Europe under the Black Sea. The project is set to be the main pipeline to southern Europe, as the competing Nabucco pipeline project, that was privileged by the European Union, failed at the tender stage. South Stream is expected to transport about 63 billion cubic meters of gas.
read more... 10/07/2013
The Shah Deniz II consortium has announced yesterday that it has made the choice and selected the Trans Adriatic Pipeline to carry gas to Europe, defeating the Nabucco West consortium. TAP is expected that will transport more than 20 billion cubic meters per year of natural gas from the Shah Deniz II field in Azerbaijan, through Greece and Albania to Italy and further into Western Europe. Nabucco West and TAP were the only two bidders in the project to transport the Azerbaijani gas.
read more... 27/06/2013
Delphine Batho, France's environment and energy minister has launched its second offshore wind tender, putting 1 GW of capacity to be developed on sites off the coast of western and northern France.
read more... 22/01/2013
The Bulgarian government gave the green light yesterday to a public tender for a permit for deepwater oil and gas prospecting and exploration at Block 1-22 Teres in Black Sea.
read more... 11/10/2012
Following an earlier launched tender by Belarus, the Russian Rosatom subsidiary, AtomStroyExport (ASE) was selected to start the construction of a two-unit nuclear power plant at Ostrovetsk in the Grodno region by the end of 2013. This will be the first nuclear power plant in Belarus.
read more... 16/07/2012