Bulgaria Looking to Revive 186-Mile Trans-Balkan Pipeline Project
1/18/2023
Pipeline and Gas Journal (Reuters) — Bulgaria is looking to revive a trans-Balkan oil pipeline project to secure non-Russian crude oil supplies for its only oil refinery on the Black Sea, controlled by Russia's Lukoil, President Rumen Radev said on Tuesday. Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is holding talks with neighboring Greece to build a 300-km (186-mile) oil pipeline to transport crude oil from the Greek port of Alexandroupolis on the Aegean Sea to Bulgaria's Black Sea port of Burgas, Radev said. Bulgaria has won a two-year exemption from a European Union ban on Russian crude imports, imposed over the invasion of Ukraine. However, the country needs to secure enough non-Russian cr
