Minister Delian Dobrev: Traders have access to the domestic natural gas market

“As of next year, we will be buying 100% of the gas for Bulgargaz from Gazpromexport. What other traders on the Bulgarian market will do is their own business,” Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism Delian Dobrev stated for Focus agency on Sunday. He specified that there are no contracts for the price of gas between Bulgargaz and Overgas. “We cannot have arrangements for avoiding competition because Bulgargaz is a company selling gas just like LB Bulgaricum is a company selling cheese. If there are other traders on this market, other private companies willing to sell, they are welcome to sell,” said Dobrev. He pointed out that the market is being liberalised and all traders who want access to the network of Bulgartransgaz will have it, so that they can make deliveries. Dobrev said that the state-run company Bulgargaz has only one contract and it is with Gazpromexport. According to Dobrev, there will be no more intermediaries, while by the end of the year, Overgas will be one of the companies that will have supplied over 90% of the volume of natural gas to the Bulgarian market.

“Central heating prices cannot go down by 10% while the price of natural gas is reduced by 9%,” added Dobrev. The Executive Director of the Bulgarian Energy Holding Mihail Antonov is not a regulator, nor am I the person who sets prices,” said the Energy Minister. There are regulators who will say what the price of central heating will be,” specified Dobrev during the opening of the first store of LB Bulgaricum in the capital city.

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