Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 9

28-Feb-2011

CASPIAN

Burgas-Alexandroupolis Consortium Sets Deadline For Bulgarian Approval

A meeting of shareholders of the Trans-Balkan Pipeline Consortium in Rome on 17 February set the Bulgarian government a 20 March deadline to pay 7.3mn it owes its Russian and Greek partners and to approve an updated environmental impact assessment, which has been submitted to the Bulgarian environment ministry. If Sofia does not meet the deadline, Transneft...