Alexander Kayes

Shell to Drill for Oil, Gas off Bulgarian Coast

Royal Dutch Shell told reporters in Sofia on Tuesday that it will launch an exploratory drilling operation next month in the Han Kubrat oil and gas field off the coast of Burgas in the Black Sea.

The 90-day exploration will commence off the Noble Globetrotter II ship on 1 April 1, about 80 kilometres from Burgas in south-east Bulgaria.