Bulgarian
state-owned gas distributor Bulgargaz said it posted a net loss of 15.2 million
levs ($8.7 million/7.8 million euro) in the first quarter of 2015.
In the
like period a year earlier, Bulgargaz reported a net profit of 29.5 million
levs, it said in a financial report published on the website of the country's
finance ministry on Tuesday.
First-quarter revenues, however, grew to 505
million levs from 481 million levs in the like period last year, it
added.
Gas consumption by industrial clients rose by an annual 9.55% in
the three-month period, to 837 million cubic metres.
Bulgargas is part of
the Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH).