Gas pipeline operators in Bulgaria and Slovakia, Bulgartransgaz and Eustream, signed on Thursday an agreement to seek EU funding to build a new Eastring pipeline for future gas supplies. Eastring was proposed by Slovakia after the EU suspended the South Stream project, a pipeline to deliver gas from Russia. Eastring would link Slovakia with existing pipelines in Ukraine, Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania and make Bulgaria a regional gas hub. …read more
Source: EUobserver
