Bulgaria’s
gas transmission system operator Bulgartransgaz has extended the deadline of a
9.0 million levs ($6.3 million/4.6 million euro) tender for the construction of
an exploitation well for the country's Chiren underground gas storage, the
company said.
The deadline has been prolonged to November 28 from October 24, the company
said in a filing on its website on Friday. It did not specify the reasons for
the change.
The project includes the construction of the pipeline to the well and a
separation unit.
The Chiren underground gas storage, located in northwestern
Bulgaria
, has 22 exploitation wells and a
capacity to hold 550 million cubic metres of gas.
Bulgartransgaz is a subsidiary of Bulgarian Energy Holding EAD (BEH).