Bulgaria's energy regulator said on Thursday it has approved a 23.02%
reduction in the regulated wholesale gas prices for the second quarter
of the year.
Earlier in March, state-ownedgas monopoly Bulgargaz
proposed the same rate ofreduction ofthe price at which it sells
natural gas to its clients to 312.21 levs ($177.1/159.4 euro) per 1,000
cu m.
Bulgaria imports almost all the natural gas it needs from
Russia's Gazprom through a pipeline crossing the territories of Ukraine,
Moldova and Romania.
(SeeNews)