Brussels, 19/11/2010 (Agence Europe) - Shareholders of the new gas pipeline between Italy and Russia, South Stream, in Bulgaria want to keep control of 70% of the network themselves and restrict access to third parties.
The Bulgarian energy minister, Traicho Traikov, says that Bulgarian energy company Bulgarian Energy Holding and Russian giant Gazprom, each of which owns 50% of the joint venture carrying out research, building and then running the Bulgarian section of the South Stream gas...