The executive director of the Bulgarian state-owned company Bulgargransgaz Vladimir Malinov told BNT that although Russia had cut off natural gas supplies to Bulgaria, they would not stop the transit of Russian gas to Macedonia, Greece and Serbia.
According to Malinov, Bulgaria has already started negotiations with Turkey to provide a natural gas supply route as an alternative route.
Bulgargransgaz is ready to fill the Bulgarian national gas storage facility in Chiren by the end of summer and autumn. Malinov said that another test of the gas connection between Bulgaria and Greece was done yesterday and everything is going according to plan, so that the interconnector will be completed by the end of June, although Bulgartransgaz itself will not be its operator.
