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A contractor is expected to be selected in early December for the construction of a gas pipeline interconnection with Romania under the Danube river bed, Bulgaria's Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova said on Friday.

Romania and Bulgaria are looking for new builders of the 26 kilometer Giurgiu-Ruse gas pipeline.

Georgi Gegov, CEO of state-owned gas transmission operator Bulgartransgaz, has suggested that it will not be easy for major gas pipeline projects to circumvent Bulgaria.

Speaking Thursday during a conference titled "Industry, Energy, and Environment", he noted that gas shipments to Greece and Turkey from Ukraine were delivered entirely through Bulgarian capacity.

Austrian OMV has asked Bulgarian state-owned gas transmission operator Bulgartransgaz about opportunities to transport natural gas from Romania via Bulgarian gas pipelines, according to Georgi Gegov, CEO of Bulgartransgaz.

The construction of the Bulgaria-Serbia gas grid interconnector will boost the energy security of both countries and of the region as a whole, according to Bulgaria's Deputy Energy Minister Nikolay Nikolov.

Nikolov met with Miryana Filipovic, Mirjana Filipovi?, State Secretary of Ministry of Mining and Energy in Belgrade.

Exploration Manager Europe and Caspian at ExxonMobil, Stacey Weltmer has stated that the company is very much interested in winning a tender for oil and shale gas exploration mission in Bulgaria.

Bids for the public procurement procedure for the feasibility study for the Interconnector Turkey -Bulgaria (ITB) will be opened on May 8, according to the Public Procurement Agency.

Bulgaria has received no notice of termination for the South Stream gas pipeline project so far, according to Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova.

In a Saturday interview for the Bulgarian National Radio she said that the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project, which was proposed as an alternative to South Stream, would be costlier due to the re-routing.

The state-owned natural gas transmission operator Bulgartransgaz was awarded EU funding for pre-investment feasibility study of the planned interconnector between Bulgaria and Turkey.

The agreement for the funding of the pre-investment feasibility study of the projected gas interconnector between Bulgaria and Turkey was signed on April 3, BGNES news agency reports.

State-owned Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) has been charged with breaching EU anti-trust rules, the European Commission said on Monday.

In a statement to the media it accused the BEH of barring competitors' access to elements of Bulgaria's gas infrastructure.