Azerbaijan has resumed gas supplies to Bulgaria after their temporary suspension in January due to technical reasons, the Bulgarian state-owned gas distributor Bulgargaz said in a statement on Monday.
“Gas supplies to Bulgaria under a long-term contract with Azerbaijan resumed on Sunday, January 19,” the statement said.
As reported, Bulgargaz said last week that Azerbaijan had temporarily stopped gas supplies to Bulgaria from January 7 for technical reasons. The company said that supplies would resume on January 11, but on January 10 UK-based BP said that there was a technical fault in the pipeline designed to transport condensate from the Shah Deniz Alpha platform to the Sangachal terminal. Operations on the platform were temporarily halted to fix the issue as soon as possible.
BP Azerbaijan later said it had resumed production from the Shah Deniz Alpha platform from the evening of January 18 after the condensate pipeline issue had been fully resolved.
The suspension of production from the platform affected Azerbaijani gas supplies to Bulgaria and Serbia.
Bulgaria has a long-term gas supply contract with Azerbaijan for one bcm per year.
Azerbaijan has contracts for supplies of gas with ten European countries, namely, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, and North Macedonia. It has long-term contracts with fixed supply volumes with three countries – Italy, Greece and Bulgaria – and contracts without specific volumes with the others.
