Sofia — Bulgaria will start receiving natural gas supplies from Russia’s Gazprom via Turkey as of Jan. 1 next year and would no longer use the route through Ukraine and Romania, Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova said on Monday.
Petkova said that the new route via the TurkStream pipeline would be more economically viable and could result in about 5% decrease in natural gas prices on an annual basis.
The Balkan country meets almost all of its gas needs — about 3 billion cubic metres of gas per year — with Gazprom supplies.
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