石油设备网讯 据路透社2019年3月15日巴库报道，保加利亚总理博伊科·鲍里斯索夫周四在巴库表示，保加利亚预计阿塞拜疆国家石油公司（阿国油/SOCAR）今年将开始投资保加利亚的零售天然气分销网络。
索非亚计划在2020年以后利用来自阿塞拜疆的天然气来满足本国30%的天然气需求，从而逐步减少其几乎完全依赖俄罗斯的天然气。根据其与阿塞拜疆签署的合同，保加利亚每年将从位于里海的阿塞拜疆沙赫杰尼兹II大气田进口10亿立方米的天然气。
SOCAR此前曾表示有意投资保加利亚的天然气零售分销网络以及扩大保加利亚的天然气存储设施。
鲍里斯索夫日前在巴库会见了阿塞拜疆总统阿利耶夫以后发表的一份声明称：“今年和2020年，我们可以完成多年来一直在进行的谈判。”
鲍里斯索夫说，阿塞拜疆天然气的进口预计将通过保加利亚和希腊之间的IGB天然气互连管道。IGB天然气互连管道的建设将于今年夏天开始，并将于2020年投入使用。
保加利亚正在寻求确保黑海港口瓦尔纳天然气枢纽的天然气供应。鲍里索夫说，他已经与阿利耶夫讨论了为该计划额外运送阿塞拜疆天然气的可能性。
目前，保加利亚95%以上的天然气需求来自俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司
李峻 编译自 路透社
原文如下：
Bulgaria expects SOCAR to invest in its retail gas network this year
Bulgaria expects Azeri state energy company SOCAR to start investing in the Balkan country's retail gas distribution network this year, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said on Thursday.
Sofia plans to cover up to 30 percent of its gas needs beyond 2020 with natural gas from Azerbaijan, reducing its almost total dependence on Russian gas, under its contract to import 1 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas a year from the Shah Deniz II gas field in the Caspian Sea.
SOCAR has previously expressed an interest in investing in Bulgaria's retail network, as well as in expanding the country's gas storage facility.
"In 2019 and 2020 we can finish what we have been negotiating for years," Borissov said in a statement after meeting Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev in Baku.
The Azeri gas imports are expected to come through the IGB gas interconnector pipeline between Bulgaria and Greece. Borissov said the construction of the IGB would start this summer and that it would become operational in 2020.
Bulgaria is looking to secure gas supplies for its planned gas hub at the Black Sea port of Varna and Borissov said he had discussed the possibility of additional Azeri gas shipments for the plan.
Currently, more than 95 percent of Bulgaria's gas needs are met by supplies from Russia's Gazprom
