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US LNG for Bulgaria to cost up to 5%
less than Russian gas, MP says
POLICY THE liquefied natural gas (LNG) that Bulgaria Russia’s Gazprom, while the supplies afterwards
will receive from the US in June will cost between will be much cheaper than that.
2% and 5% less compared to the natural gas the Gazprom stopped deliveries to natural gas
country could have been buying from Russian to Bulgaria at the end of April, after the country
Gazprom, Ivailo Mirchev, an MP from Demo- refused to start paying in rubles.
cratic Bulgaria, said on May 16 in an interview Petkov said that the two US ships with LNG
with public broadcaster BNR. will arrive on June 8 and 13. He has not disclosed
Earlier in May, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov the name of the US company that is selling the
announced that the country will receive two LNG.
shipments of LNG from the US in June and a Also on May 16, Bulgaria’s government pro-
contract for long-term imports will be signed. posed that local companies should compensate
Petkov said the price of the LNG that will arrive 80% of the electricity price if the price is above
in June will be lower than that demanded by €102.3 per MWh.
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